by Alan Colin Arce | 20 July 2026 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
This report provides a summary of the Third Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, which took place from February 2-6, 2024 in Bengaluru, India. The gathering included presenters from Canadian, regional, and international open access organizations, as well as governments and universities from around the world. There were 168 in-person attendees from 28 countries and 179 online participants from 33 countries. One outcome of the summit was the Bengaluru Roadmap for Diamond Open Access, which offers directions for promoting diamond OA among multiple stakeholder groups.
by Alan Colin Arce | 13 July 2026 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This research scan is the first part of a series that will examine how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are impacting scholarly communication. This post surveys the current discourse surrounding GenAI’s place within the peer review process. Primary academic concerns at the advent of GenAI revolved around ideas of authorship, plagiarism, and academic transparency, and these issues still drive a passionate conversation.
by Alan Colin Arce | 3 July 2026 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This insights and signals report provides an overview of recent open peer review policies and initiatives. Open peer review fosters greater openness throughout the review process: it could entail practices ranging from simply making reviewer identities known to authors to providing readers access to the identities of peer reviewers and their review reports. This practice is gaining traction to improve the transparency and equity in the peer review process. However, there are diverse models and considerations needed in the adoption of open peer review, such as unequal participation, reluctance to make reviewers’ identities public, and inconclusive evidence of its benefits and possible downsides.
by Alan Colin Arce | 22 June 2026 | English, Observations and Responses
This observation describes Clarivate’s introduction of the “Research Commons” database, which draws from data from OpenAlex and Crossref and adds it to a separate database in the Web of Science. This announcement is connected to recent trends seen in open scholarship, such as the corporate appropriation of knowledge commons and commonswashing, an appropriation of the language of the commons without contributing to them.
by Alan Colin Arce | 29 April 2026 | Community News, English
The 7th annual gathering of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS), held on 2-3 December 2025 at the Australian National University in Canberra, brought together a vibrant group of scholars, policymakers, industry experts, and advocates to discuss recent developments in artificial intelligence and open scholarship. This year’s theme “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’” provided reflection points into how artificial intelligence is changing the open scholarship landscape for Canadian and Australian researchers and stakeholders.
by Alan Colin Arce | 10 March 2026 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This Insights and Signals reports on the development, content and impact of the Revues Savantes Canadiennes/Canadian Scholarly Journals list dataset.
Items discussed in this report include:
The unique traits and relevance of the Revues Savantes Canadiennes/Canadian Scholarly Journals list dataset
Research projects, library science and scientific policy instances which have already used and benefited from the list
The importance of collective work in keeping the list updated and in appropriating it as a valuable resource
