HELIOS Open 2024 Programming and Structures
Vision: A community of U.S. higher education leaders engaged in collective action to advance open scholarship recognition, rewards, and resources to support open practices by default.
Values: We are working together to promote a more transparent, inclusive, equitable, and trustworthy research ecosystem.
High-Level Overview of 2024 Programming and Structures
HELIOS Open Community Calls every 6-8 weeks with the entire community.
These are opportunities to engage the entirety of the HELIOS Open network 1) to identify open scholarship focus areas that motivate and animate institutions, 2) to offer a medium for institutions with like interests to connect, and 3) to provide a path forward for identifying support structures to facilitate member collaborations that advance HELIOS Open goals.
Member Representative Advisory Council with shifting membership, annually. The goal is to have a community of HELIOS Open ambassadors that can advise and identify community-led opportunities for the HELIOS Open members to advance work, and then develop tangible next steps including milestones and deliverables for any proposed projects.
Working Groups and Affinity Groups will shift to mission-focused small group work that can form, storm, accomplish, and then return back into the larger overall community group. These will be community-led.
Quarterly dialogues between federal agencies and HELIOS Open leadership in the research office to establish direct communication channels with the federal agencies as they implement public access plans and as colleges and universities are thinking through compliance, infrastructure, and funding needs related to open scholarship and public access to research.
Senior Leadership Advisory Council. This group will identify and advise on higher education’s open scholarship opportunities and assess and provide feedback on HELIOS Open work as it supports the National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship and leadership goals.
