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.
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.
Cet article présente l’Open Scholarship Press et l’analyse de recherches « Communauté » menée par Arbuckle et al. (2023). L’Open Scholarship Press met à la disposition des universitaires et du grand public les recherches et les résultats pertinents issus des approches sociales des savoirs ouverts. L’étude « Communauté » vise à recueillir et à résumer les réflexions récentes sur l’engagement public, les approches sociales des savoirs ouverts et la communication scientifique.
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.