Policy perspectives & issue briefs

Big picture

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.

OSI POLICY PERSPECTIVES

April 16, 2023

Findings from OSI’s global survey of researchers

What do researchers around the world think about open access and open data policies? What kinds of open policies do they really want and need?

April 14, 2023

Considering evidence-based approaches to open policy

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...

February 15, 2021

Recommendations to UNESCO on developing a unified approach to open

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?

June 1, 2020

Open science roadmap recommendations to UNESCO

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...