Sustaining Open, Community Governed Infrastructures: Global reflections and perspectives

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In this session, US, UK and European leaders of open, community-governed infrastructures that support library and university publishing and discovery will reflect on their journeys towards sustainability. In a moderated discussion format, presenters will reflect upon lessons learned while sustaining open infrastructure efforts with interactive polling via Mentimeter to engage the audience throughout. Discussion questions will include questions such as:

• Given your experience, what data do you think is useful for open infrastructure efforts getting started on their sustainability journey?
• Do you think how you fund operations changes over time based on how mature your infrastructure and user community is?

Sometimes people talk about convergence and the need to come together behind specific infrastructures to pool resources, but others seek to support innovation and what's next. What are your thoughts on how scholarly communications as a sector balances supporting the effort that's come before with supporting the work on what's next?