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 | 13 October 2025 | Community News, French
L’Open Scholarship Policy Observatory a publié quatre volumes complets (deux en anglais et deux en français) qui documentent sept années d’analyse et d’observations politiques dans le domaine en pleine évolution de la recherche ouverte. Ces recueils, librement accessibles via Open Scholarship Press sur la plateforme Wikibooks, retracent l’évolution du mouvement, depuis les tensions initiales jusqu’aux nouveaux défis liés à l’intelligence artificielle et aux infrastructures contrôlées par la communauté.
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.
