Rethinking Openness: Challenges and New Approaches to Open Scholarly Journals

Abstract

This paper‘s main objective is to present and discuss some results of a research project in progress on issues currently in debate on open scholarly journals dedicated to the publication of research outputs on an open, democratic and transparent basis. It contemplates a brief review of the literature about challenges regarding openness of the current scholarly publication system and political-economic constraints to its democratization, to support the analysis of two case studies on open publication platforms Research Ideas and Outcomes and Wellcome Open Research based on information available on their websites. As results, we present an analysis of publication practices and policies in action on these platforms and their policies.