by Alan Colin Arce | 12 January 2026 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This report examines some of the challenges facing French-language scholarly publishing in Canada, despite the country’s official bilingual status since 1969. Key takeaways include the federal government’s significant investment ($4.1 billion Action Plan with $8.5 million specifically for French research infrastructure), Quebec’s leadership through Érudit’s digital publishing consortium and the FRQ’s $10 million commitment to a collaborative network for francophone journals, and comprehensive recommendations for reforming research evaluation practices to better value multilingual scholarship and support the transition to diamond open access models that can sustain French-language publishing in Canada.
by Alan Colin Arce | 8 December 2025 | French, Insights and Signals Reports
Ce rapport insights and signals présente le bilan de la première conférence canadienne sur la science ouverte et la recherche ouverte. Les points abordés dans ce rapport sont les suivants :
Participation des partenaires d’INKE à la première conférence canadienne sur la science ouverte et les savoirs ouverts
Points clés à retenir de l’événement
by Alan Colin Arce | 1 December 2025 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
This insights and signals reports on the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship. Items discussed in this report include the Participation of INKE partners in the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship and key takeaways from the event
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 | 20 October 2025 | French, Insights and Signals Reports
https://doi.org/10.25547/5BKQ-6B16 Read it in English here. Cette observation a été rédigée par Brittany Amell, avec ses remerciements aux partenaires d’INKE Suzanne Beth et Lucia Céspedes (Érudit) pour leur relecture et leurs commentaires. Traduction française...
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.
