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Description
TSOSI, Transparency to sustain open science infrastructure, is a new web platform, launched in June 2025, that aims to broaden financial support to open science infrastructure. This contribution will first explain the context and goals of TSOSI. Its aim is to make support for infrastructures as evident as, for example, subscribing to a ‘publish and read’ agreement. How can we make the practice of supporting open infrastructures more common? This will be the main focus of the contribution.
TSOSI’s original idea is based on transparency and mimicry. Imagine a tool, for universities, that allows them to see which open infrastructures their neighboring universities have supported. This is precisely what TOSI is designed to do. It highlights which organizations – e.g. research funders, library consortia, universities – have financially supported which open infrastructures. TSOSI sheds light on the open infrastructure funding landscape; its motto is ‘the more we highlight the supports made for open infrastructures, the more supporters we will attract’.
Biography:
Maxence Larrieu is the project leader of Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure (TSOSI, tsosi.org), which started in 2024 and is funded by the French Committee for Open Science. He has been working at the University of Grenoble Alpes since 2023 as a data steward for the humanities and social sciences. He obtained his PhD in 2018 at Paris-Est University in digital humanities. Since 2015, he has been working to implement open science at the institutional level in different research universities. He has been engaged in research data, diamond open access, monitoring open science, and open access repositories. Besides TSOSI, one of his latest famous projects is the diamond open access publishing platform OPUS, opus.u-paris.fr, running entirely on free softwares from the Public Knowledge Project. He has been a member of the LIBER Open Access working group, and he is currently the pilot of one of the national open science working groups led by the French Committee for Open Science.
