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{{short description|Non-profit organisation to enhance research publishing and communication}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = FORCE11
| image               = Logo horizontal small.png
| size                =
| caption             = The Future of Scholarly Communication and e-Scholarship
| formation           = {{start date and age|2011}}
| type                = [[Nonprofit organization]]
| tax_id              = 46-3994190
| focus               = [[Scholarly communication]]
| headquarters        = San Diego
| language            = English
| leader_title        = Board Chair
| leader_name         = [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56217795 Todd A. Carpenter]
| membership          = 3,471 (June 2011)
| subsidiaries        = Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI)
| affiliations        =
| website             = {{URL|https://www.force11.org|force11.org}}
}}
'''FORCE11''' is an international coalition of researchers, librarians, publishers and research funders working to reform or enhance the research publishing and communication system. Initiated in 2011 as a community of interest on scholarly communication, FORCE11 is a registered [[501(c)(3) organization]] based in the United States but with members and partners around the world. Key activities include an annual conference, the [[Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute|Scholarly Communications Institute]] and a range of working groups.
== History ==
FORCE11 grew out of the FORC Workshop held in [[Dagstuhl]], Germany in August 2011.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Neylon|first=Cameron|date=2018-04-05|title=Social infrastructures in research communication: a personal view of the FORCE11 story|journal=Insights: The UKSG Journal|language=en|volume=31|doi=10.1629/uksg.404|issn=2048-7754|doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.11937/67101|hdl-access=free}}</ref> This meeting resulted in the collaborative creation of a white paper<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmdXR1cmVvZnJlc2VhcmNoY29tbXVuaWNhdGlvbnN8Z3g6M2FhNTMyOWRiZjk5NGFmNg|title=Force11 White Paper: Improving The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> which summarized the problems of scholarly communication and proposed a vision to address them.
== Activities ==
Through various working groups FORCE11 has undertaken a range of activities to improve the standards, interoperability and functionality of digital research communications and developed various statements on principles and policies for best practice. These include:
* [[FAIR data|FAIR Data Principles]]: The development of a set of principles based on making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/|title=FAIR Principles|website=GO FAIR|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-08}}</ref>
* [[SciCrunch|Research Resource Identification Initiative]] (RRID): supporting new guidelines and identifiers in biomedical publications<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scicrunch.org/resources|title=RRID {{!}} Welcome...|website=scicrunch.org|access-date=2019-08-08}}</ref>
* Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP): intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data through [[data citation]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Clark|first=Tim|last2=Taylor|first2=Mike|last3=Smith|first3=Arthur|last4=Sacchi|first4=Simone|last5=Rauber|first5=Andreas|last6=Proell|first6=Stefan|last7=Nurnberger|first7=Amy|last8=Nielsen|first8=Lars Holm|last9=Lin|first9=Jennifer|date=2015-05-27|title=Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications|journal=PeerJ Computer Science|language=en|volume=1|pages=e1|doi=10.7717/peerj-cs.1|pmid=26167542|pmc=4498574|issn=2376-5992|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Software citation principles<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Arfon M. |last2=Katz |first2=Daniel S. |last3=Niemeyer |first3=Kyle E. |last4=FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group |title=Software citation principles |journal=PeerJ Computer Science |date=19 September 2016 |volume=2 |pages=e86 |doi=10.7717/peerj-cs.86 |url=https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86 |language=en |issn=2376-5992|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11820/84ff1e9d-4edf-4d7b-a7b2-5722e154fbc6 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
== See also ==
*[https://aoasg.org.au/ Australian Open Access Strategy Group] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210061918/https://aoasg.org.au/ |date=2018-02-10 }} (AOASG)
*[[Coalition for Networked Information|Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)]]
*[[Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association|Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)]]
*[[Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition]] (SPARC)
== References ==
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[[Category:Open access (publishing)]]
[[Category:Scholarly communication]]
[[Category:2011 establishments in Germany]]