by Britt Amell | 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.
by Britt Amell | 13 October 2025 | Community News, English
The Open Scholarship Policy Observatory has published four comprehensive volumes (two in English and two in French) documenting seven years of policy analysis and observations from the rapidly evolving open scholarship landscape. The collections, freely accessible through Open Scholarship Press via the Wikibooks platform, trace the movement’s development from foundational tensions to emerging challenges around artificial intelligence and community-controlled infrastructure.
by Britt Amell | 7 October 2025 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
Modern AI training bots are overwhelming open access repositories worldwide, potentially forcing institutions to choose between protecting their infrastructure and maintaining open principles. This insights and signals report offers a brief introduction to ‘bots,’ some of the issues they pose, as well as some early responses from the open access and open scholarship community.
by Britt Amell | 6 October 2025 | Community News, English, Observations, Observations and Responses
International Open Access Week 2025 (October 20-26) asks a critical question: “Who owns our knowledge?” This year’s theme challenges the scholarly community to examine not only who has access to research, but also how knowledge is created, shared, and valued. This report explores four key dimensions of the 2025 theme—control, creation, recognition, and access—while highlighting notable events and developments that illustrate how communities worldwide are working to ensure knowledge serves the common good rather than commercial interests.
by Britt Amell | 29 September 2025 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
https://doi.org/10.25547/3GS3-6R44 Lisez-le en français This insight and signals report was written by Alan Colin-Arce and Brittany Amell, with thanks to INKE Partner Lucía Céspedes (Research Advisor, Érudit) and Iryna Kuchma (Open Access Programme Manager, EIFL) for...
by Britt Amell | 15 September 2025 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This insights and signals report discusses the Foresight on AI report recently released by Policy Horizons Canada, as well as reports from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026) and the AI Safety Institute (the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, also known as the International AI Safety Report). It also shares some AI and cybersecurity related news from Global Affairs Canada, the National Cybersecurity Consortium, and the University of New Brunswick—which is set to receive $10 million dollars over the next five years in order to establish the Cyber Attribution Data Centre.
