Surveying the Open Scholarship Policy Landscape—Introducing the ‘Policy’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

Surveying the Open Scholarship Policy Landscape—Introducing the ‘Policy’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

by | 24 November 2025 | Community News, English

This post introduces the Policy research scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press.. The Policy research scan follows and reflects policy developments related to open scholarship in Canada and beyond, analyzing policy changes and their relevance to researchers, information professionals, librarians, faculty, and policymakers. With roots in the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, this resource takes a Canadian focus and an interest in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), but it takes a broad view, considering open scholarship as an international and interdisciplinary movement.

Open Scholarship Perspectives on Digital Pedagogy and Training—Introducing the ‘Training’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

Open Scholarship Perspectives on Digital Pedagogy and Training—Introducing the ‘Training’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

by | 17 November 2025 | Community News, English

This post introduces the Training research scan, available open access the Open Scholarship Press. The Training research scan focuses on identifying innovative training strategies and approaches that can improve digital literacy, information-seeking, and knowledge production for students, researchers, industry, and engaged members of the public.

Creating Connections in and through Knowledge Commons—Introducing the ‘Connection’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

Creating Connections in and through Knowledge Commons—Introducing the ‘Connection’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press

by | 3 November 2025 | Community News, English

This post introduces the Connection research scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press. The Connections research scan covers topics pertinent to the knowledge commons, including how it has been conceived historically, how it has evolved in recent years, and how scholars are thinking about its implementation now. 

Introducing the ‘Community’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press 

Introducing the ‘Community’ Research Scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press 

by | 27 October 2025 | Community News, English

This post introduces the Open Scholarship Press, and the ‘Community’ research scan by Arbuckle et al. (2023). The Open Scholarship Press makes relevant open social scholarship research and output available openly to academics and non-academics alike. The ‘Community’ research scan aims to collect and summarize recent thinking on public engagement, open social scholarship, and scholarly communication.

Engaging Platforms and Open Scholarship

Engaging Platforms and Open Scholarship

by | 20 October 2025 | English, Insights and Signals Reports

This post explores the evolving concept of platforms and their implications for open scholarship, drawing on the “Engaging Platforms in Open Scholarship” scan recently published with the Open Scholarship Press (Amell et al. 2025). In addition to exploring the concept of platforms—broadly defined as tools, technologies, and infrastructures that facilitate interaction and exchange—this post offers an overview of the scan, which consists of an analytical introduction, as well as 114 individual annotations divided across five sections.