Communication Strategy
Note: If you add anyhing here you should also add it to the ‘Marketing checklist’ issue template
Channels to contact with project updates
If you’re planning to contact organisations about a project update, open a new ‘marketing blitz’ issue in Github and follow the template/checklist to keep track of who you’ve contacted. Write a different pitch for each of the following categories, then copy to all.
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE A DIRECT COPY OF THE MARKETING CHECKLIST TEMPLATE. IF IT ISN’T, OVERWRITE THE TEXT IN THE MARKETING CHECKLIST WITH THE FOLLOWING)
Internal channels (FOK)
- Mailing list (general) (mention campaign in newsletter)
- Mailing list (campaign-specific) (provide text to share on social media)
- Github Issues (for discussing campaigns)
- Project board (for organising tasks)
- Project email (info_at_freeourknowledge.org)
- GoFundMe (for donations)
- Google group
Slack(pretty much defunct due to inactivity)Google doc(for discussing campaigns, now superceded by Github)
Social media
Blogs
- UKRN
- Centre for Open Science – contact Claire Riss
- Cooper Smout homepage
- Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools
- BITSS – contact Aleksandar Bogdanoski
- Open Science MOOC
- Future of Research
Discussion forum threads
- Pubreform (original discussion forum)
- On science and academia
- Behsci
Slack workspaces
Google groups
Mailing lists
- Sharing OA Good Practice
- UCL Transparency mailing list (via Grace Gottlieb)
- UKRN lists for local network leads (and possibly institutional leads?) – mailing list to be confirmed with UKRN
- Schol Comm
- Open Science
- GOAL
- FORCE11
- RadicalOA
- Open Science Göttingen
- LIS bibliometrics
- PSCI COMM
- OpenAccess at Wikimedia
- Australian_OA_Community
- EMCR Forum Australia
- Liste des échos du RISC (ask Claire Bradley)
- OpenScience-NL
- OpenScience-DE
- Donders mailing list
- UQ cog neuro
Facebook groups
- @radicaloa @COPIMproject @FORsymp @openscicomm @IGDOREinstitute @UCBITSS @PREreview_ @OpenScienceMOOC @OSFramework @UKrepro (NB: many of these are FOK partners and we should develop more targeted strategy with, e.g. blog/news posts)
- summary open science conferences: @open_con @OKFN @improvingpsych @aimos_inc
- summary open science networks: @LIBEReurope @EIFLnet @sparc_na @sparc_eu @R2RC @force11rescomm @fosterscience
- summary misc:
- SIPS
- AIMOS
- LIBER
- EIFL
- SPARC NA
- SPARC EU
- R2RC
- FORCE11
- OpenAire
- OpenUP
- The Carpentries
- Creative Commons
- FOSTER
- Mozilla Open Leaders
- OpenCon
- Open Knowledge International
- Global Open Science Hardware Community
- OSI
- COPE
- TriangleSCI
- SCOAP3
- Open Library of the Humanities
- Open Scholarship Initiative
- Open Knowledge Maps
- United Nations University
Declarations (can we get access these mailing lists?)
Pledge sites (superceded; see https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/pledges for latest pledge list)
Field-specific
Social Psychology
- https://sasp.org.au
- https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?nodeid=1
- http://www.spsp.org
- https://www.easp.eu
Channels that will only be used occasionally
Note that these channels are not populated when you create a ‘marketing blitz’ issue in Github, because they require a more customised communication strategy.
Podcasts
- Everything Hertz
- Road 2 Open Access
- Blackgoat
- PhD career stories
- QBI
- http://www.openscienceradio.org/
Blogs
- eLife labs blog
- Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog, Kevin Smith
- https://science20.wordpress.com/
- LSE Impact blog
- The Scholarly Kitchen
- The Conversation
- Undark
- the-scientist.com
- Learned Publishing
- UKSG
- LQ
- The Wire
Media contacts
- Michael Schulson (michael_at_undark.org) – contacted and Skyped in Sept 2019
Influencers
- Randy Schekman
- Michael Eisen
- Brian Nosek
- Susannah Harris
- Timothy Gowers
- David Prosser (the head of Research Libraries UK, and a prominent voice for reforming the publishing industry)
- Brett T. Buttliere
- Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate)
- Alexandra Elbakyan (Sci-Hub founder)
- Authors of “Reproducibility Initiative” (Baker, 2012)
- Authors of “Reproducibility Project” (Collaboration, 2012)
- Chris Chambers
- Tal Yarkoni
- Richard Morey
- Alexander Holcombe
- Simon Batterbury
- Scott Aaronson (“…much of the serious content on the Internet remains sequestered behind pointless, artificial walls—walls that serve the interests of neither the readers nor the authors, but only of the wall-builders themselves. If I have a medical problem, why can’t I download the full text of clinical studies dealing with that problem? Why do so many researchers still not post their papers on their web pages—or if they do, then omit their early papers? When will we in academia get our act together enough to make the world’s scholarly output readable, for free, by anyone with a web browser?”
- Sir/Prof. Tim Gowers (argues, journals these days exist only to accommodate author prestige)
Conferences
- see https://www.freeourknowledge.org/pages/news/ for list of conference presentations to date