by Britt Amell | 14 November 2024 | French, Insights and Signals Reports
Les rapports “Policy 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 Insights and Signals est le premier d’une série qui se concentre sur l’évolution des discussions centrées sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA), en particulier l’IA générative (genAI) et les grands modèles de langage (LLM), et sur les implications qu’elles peuvent avoir pour l’accès libre et la recherche sociale ouverte.
by Britt Amell | 14 November 2024 | English, Insights and Signals Reports
Widespread debates about the future of artificial intelligence and the need for ethical frameworks and regulatory policies to mitigate potential harms, re-ignited in 2022 by OpenAI’s first release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT, continue to receive attention by scholars and media alike. This Insights and Signals Report is apart of a series that will focus on evolving discussions centered around artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs), and the implications these may have for open access and open social scholarship. Items discussed in this report include a brief introduction to generative artificial intelligence; the artificial intelligence act passed in May 2024 by the Council of the European Union; the inclusion of artificial intelligence in Canada’s Digital Charter Implementation Act (2022); several responses to AI in Canada from scholars, journals, post-secondary institutions, scholarly associations and granting agencies, as well as some core concerns raised by these groups; and responses from INKE partners John Willinsky (Founder, Public Knowledge Project) and John Maxwell (Associate Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University). The report concludes with provocations to consider some discursive silences, such as perspectives on data mining as an extractive colonial practice, and Indigenous data sovereignty.
by Caroline Winter | 17 March 2023 | French, Observations, Observations and Responses
Au cours de la dernière décennie ou plus, une tendance vers la consolidation du marché a été observée dans l’écosystème des communications savantes, avec moins d’entreprises détenant des parts croissantes du marché. Une étude de Data Think a estimé qu’en 2021, les très grands éditeurs (ceux qui publient plus de 500 revues) ont représenté seulement 0,06% des éditeurs de leur étude, mais ils ont publié près de la moitié – 47% – de tous les articles (Pollock 2022). Cette consolidation croissante du marché a soulevé des préoccupations dans la communauté de la science ouverte et dans la communauté universitaire en général.
by Caroline Winter | 17 March 2023 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
For the past decade or more, a trend has been observed in the scholarly communications ecosystem toward market consolidation, with fewer companies owning increasing shares of the market. A study by Data Think estimated that, in 2021, very large publishers (those with more than 500 journals) accounted for only 0.06% of the publishers in their study but published nearly half—47%—of all articles (Pollock 2022). This increasing market consolidation has raised concerns in the open scholarship community and in the broader academic community.
by Caroline Winter | 29 September 2022 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
As discussed in the observation “Open Access Monographs,” published in March 2021, increasing attention has been paid in recent years to strategies for successfully publishing open access (OA) monographs and other long-form publications such as book chapters. Martin Eve and Anthony Cond described 2021 as “the year of the ‘starting pistol’” for OA books, with the release of Plan S guidelines for OA monographs, UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new OA policy that for the first time applies to monographs, and the countdown to the UK’s next Research Excellence Framework (REF) (2021). This observation summarizes select developments related to OA monograph publishing over the past year.
