Digital research infrastructure is essential to open science, but it is often overlooked and vulnerable to policy changes and funding cuts.

The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.

How IOI moved from financial reporting to financial decision-making, and what we learned.

Political threats to scientific data demand coordinated, resilient open infrastructure — IOI is helping build it.

We had the opportunity to speak with Kaitlin Thaney at the ALPSP Manchester Conference, where she shared her inspiring journey into the world of open access, open infrastructure, and scholarly comm…

Our 2025 Impact Report is live! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year.

A deeper dive into IOI’s unique approach to grantmaking that couples long-term funding with targeted strategic guidance and operational support.

Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.

New research reveals how US library consortia are evolving from service providers to critical bulwarks, using collective action and open infrastructure to help members navigate unprecedented…

We moderated a panel at Open Science FAIR 2025 to explore pragmatic collaboration between commercial and non-commercial actors in open science.

Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up...

The database that tracked the financial toll of big weather events is set to return this fall from nonprofit Climate Central. The database is a key tool for insurance companies.

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...

An overview of how open infrastructure is helping in the preservation of ancient cultural practices and traditions by Mapuche women in Chile

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.

As the Trump administration systematically defunds the American research ecosystem, while disingenuously promising a return to so-called “gold standard science,” hope can be drawn from the new biparti...

We are releasing three new outputs from our NSF-funded research into public access preparation at institutions in the United States, including survey results and workflows.

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...