Managing Serials Data as a Community: Partnering With the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb)

The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do

“…Partnership approaches are the dominant model here, with initiatives such as the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) developing open linked data for electronic resource management and scholarly communication using a community-managed approach (Hanson, Song & Wilson, 2015), and the Open Library of Humanities, which is also based on library partner contributions, with libraries funding infrastructure developmentrather than purchasing individual journals-in a groundbreaking project enabling humanists to experiment with new models of open access publishing (Eve & Edwards, 2015). Public libraries are also engaging with the open agenda; for example, by hosting open data hackathons and exploring other ways of working with the open data community, while also strengthening links with local government (Carruthers, 2014).…”