Association services, namely, promoting collaboration within the scientific and academic communities to achieve advances in open scholarship and increase open access to research outputs and data in the fields of scholarly and scientific research; promoting the public interest and awareness in advancing open scholarship and open source research within and across colleges and universities; organizing, conducting and facilitating working groups in the field of higher education to promote and develop actionable policies, resources, guidance, metrics, and infrastructure in support of open scholarship and open source research in colleges and universities