About SNSI

SNSI brings together publishers and institutions to solve cyber-challenges threatening the integrity of the scientific record, scholarly systems and the safety of personal data.

Members include large and small publishers, learned societies and university presses and others involved in scholarly communications.

Working together

Publishers and librarians have a good record of collaboration to solve real pain points experienced by researchers and students, examples of recent cooperation include:

• Crossref ensures that research outputs are easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.
• seamlessaccess.org is making it easier for researchers to access articles using their institutional logins when they are not on campus.
• GetFTR is helping researchers quickly access the articles they need from a wide variety of discovery tools that they are already using.

We now need to work together to achieve our shared mission - the safety and security of personal data. Cybersecurity isn't just an issue for publishers. It isn't just a challenge for librarians. It is not just an obstacle for institutions or nuisance for researchers. This is an issue for all of us, and a problem we firmly believe can be best addressed sustainably and effectively together.

The SNSI University Relations Group has been formed to help address this. Several librarians, representatives from leading organizations and other key stakeholders have kindly agreed to provide SNSI with independent advice and feedback on our program, which will be turned into tangible actions the group takes.