SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based non-profit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service. This service will provide notice that research is available to the public.
SHARE is a collaborative initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), created to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research results. The Notification Service, to be built over the next 18 months, is SHARE's first project.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have generously provided grant funding to develop the open source Notification Service, which will enable scholars, funders, university research offices, institutional and disciplinary repositories, and the public to identify when a publication, data set, or other research output is available.
Interested parties have found it difficult to keep abreast of the release of publications, data sets, and other results of scholarly research. Across the disciplines, principal investigators and other scholars do not have any single, structured way to report these releases in a timely and comprehensive manner. The SHARE Notification Service is a higher education-based initiative to strengthen efforts to identify, discover, and track research outputs.
COS's mission to foster openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research is well aligned with SHARE's objectives. The Notification Service will make use of the Open Science Framework (OSF), COS's existing, free, open-source platform designed to connect the scholarly workflow.
