Benefits of ICSTI Membership
- Increased visibility through speaking opportunities at ICSTI events and recognition on the ICSTI website
- Leadership experience for your staff through election to the ICSTI board and via task forces and working groups
- Opportunities for partnership and the exploration of new markets through engagement with ICSTI's global network of policy development and implementation experts and decision-makers
- High quality virtual events, including the exclusive ICSTI Connections series which fosters in-depth small-group discussions of key achievements and challenges among international peers
- Participation in an annual conference and other events, both in-person and virtual, featuring invited member and non-member talks on key topics in open science policy and information infrastructure
- Opportunities to engage with ICSTI partners such as CODATA, FORCE11, GreyNet, the World Data System, and others through working groups, events, and collaboration on international policy recommendations (e.g. a 2020 submission to UNESCO with CODATA (10.5281/zenodo.3935461), the 2014 Data Citation Principles w/FORCE11 & CODATA (10.25490/a97f-egyk)
- Weekly newsletter covering the latest scientific and technical information and scholarly communications news
- Research and publication efforts synthesizing ICSTI member best practices and innovations (e.g. the 2022 survey of ICSTI member infrastructures, tools, and services for non-textual materials (10.5446/59861)
- Reduced fees for participation in the groundbreaking federated open science search platform WorldWideScience.org, which offers real-time, multilingual results from participating databases