Extensions: Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 2021-2024

To read the French version of this text, see Observatoire des politiques sur les savoirs ouverts (Tome 2).

For the first volume in this series, please see Foundational Observations: Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 2017-2020.

Editors: Lynne Siemens, Tanja Niemann, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens

Authors: Caroline Winter, Talya Jesperson, JT Kern, Maggie Sardino, Brittany Amell

Overview

Extensions: Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 2021-2024 is a book-length compendium of reflections on issues pertinent to the open scholarship movement. This volume, currently in progress, is intended to facilitate understanding of open social scholarship across Canada and internationally, as an aid to influence and implement policy around knowledge mobilization. In doing so, it reflects pertinent policies and their impact across research communities; signals trends and current research; and offers a broad and deep foundation for the development of policy recommendations on important issues, including identity management, open access, data management, citizen science, and other related areas.

Table of Contents

2021

• Wikipedian in Residence Programs (Winter and Jesperson)
• Plan S Update: The Expanding Membership of cOAlition S (Winter)
• Open Access Monographs (Winter)
• Update: Research Data Management in Canada (Winter)
• Open Access Agreements (Winter)
• International Open Access Week 2021, October 25–31 (Winter)
• The Extension of Canada's General Term of Copyright under CUSMA (USMCA) (Winter)
• The Current State of Research Data Management in Canada: A Report by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Winter)

2022

• The Fonds de Recherche du Québec Join cOAlition S (Winter)
• RDM Capacity Building in Canada and the Portages Insights Reports Series (Winter)
• Canada's National Heritage Digitization Strategy (Winter and Kern)
• The CARL–OpenAIRE Collaboration (Winter)
• The Future of Open Scholarship Project Report on Open Infrastructure (Winter)
• UKRI’s 2021 Open Access Policy (Winter)
• The State of Open Data 2021 Report (Winter)
• Altmetrics for Research Evaluation (Winter)
• The PKP and SciELO's Renewed Partnership (Winter)
• CRKN's Decolonizing Metadata Project (Winter and Kern)
• Open Access Monographs Update (Winter)
• The Nelson Memo: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research in the US (Winter)

2023

• An Action Plan for Advancing Diamond Open Access (Winter)
• International Open Access Week 2022, October 24–30 (Winter)
• Market Consolidation in Scholarly Communications (Winter and Sardino)
• Intellectual Property Rights and Open Scholarship in Europe (Winter)
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative’s 20th Anniversary Recommendations (Winter and Kern)
• Research Security and Open Scholarship in Canada (Winter)

2024

• Review of Canada's Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (2015) (Winter)
• Community over Commercialization (Amell)
• Responses to Generative AI (Amell)
• Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing (Amell)
• Federal Research Funding Agencies Announce Draft Guidance on the Use of Generative AI (Amell)