by Britt Amell | 24 November 2025 | Community News, English
This post introduces the Policy research scan, available open access via the Open Scholarship Press.. The Policy research scan follows and reflects policy developments related to open scholarship in Canada and beyond, analyzing policy changes and their relevance to researchers, information professionals, librarians, faculty, and policymakers. With roots in the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, this resource takes a Canadian focus and an interest in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), but it takes a broad view, considering open scholarship as an international and interdisciplinary movement.
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 | 13 May 2025 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
This insight and signals report extends an earlier report published on the Observatory regarding an announcement from the three federal research funding agencies regarding the development of guidance for the use of generative AI in the development and review of grant applications (originally published here in November, 2024). This guidance has since been finalized and released by the Tri-Council, and this finalized guidance is summarized here. Questions for further consideration are also presented, as are responses INKE Partners John Willinsky and John Maxwell. In addition to the above, this insights and signals report also shares an example of one hypothetical way the Tri-Council’s guidance might be adapted to create a working generative AI policy for a journal.
by Britt Amell | 10 December 2024 | French, Insights and Signals Reports
Les rapports “Insights and Signals” scrutent l’horizon afin d’identifier et d’analyser les tendances émergentes et les signaux précurseurs susceptibles d’influer sur les orientations politiques futures en matière de libre accès et d’érudition ouverte et sociale. Ils ont tendance à mettre en évidence les changements dans la technologie, l’opinion et les sentiments du public, et/ou les changements réglementaires à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur du Canada. Ce rapport est le troisième d’une série consacrée à l’évolution des discussions sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA), en particulier l’IA générative (genAI) et les grands modèles de langage (LLM), ainsi qu’aux implications qu’elles peuvent avoir pour le libre accès et la recherche sociale ouverte.
