OSI’s reports gather knowledge and lessons of experience from all stakeholder groups in scholarly communication, not just single stakeholder viewpoints.
Global
Too often, debates in scholarly communication revolve around what advocates in the global north and west want. OSI manages a global dialogue.
Action-Oriented
OSI reports identify where progress can be made and what actors need to be involved. OSI’s policy briefs are shared with our main policy partner, UNESCO.
According to the world’s most influential open access policies, only certain types of information outputs are genuinely open. In practice, however, there are actually many...
How do various open ideas and histories overlap---open access, open data, open science, and more---and what might a unified approach to open look like?
Like the concept of open itself, open science means different things to different people. International standard-setting policies need to take this diversity into account if...
Deceptive publishing (also known as predatory publishing) has been a growing problem in scholarly publishing for years now. What do we know about it? What...
While the word “open” has become ubiquitous in discussions around providing greater access to scholarship, there is no generally accepted definition of the term that...
How many of the world’s research articles can be read for free by anyone anywhere? This “opening” of the scholarly record is a herculean task...
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