The Academia that
Science Deserves
- Anonymous reviewers
- Paywalls
- Publish or perish
- Journal metrics
- Subscription fees
- Publication costs
We can, and must, do better.
Who we are
Open Scholar is a group of active academics who believe that Science deserves a more efficient, ethical, and transparent system of communication, validation and evaluation.
We investigate, develop, and promote new ideas, models, and tools for the next generation of scholarly communication. More about us →
Our projects
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Since 2019 Psicológica Journal
We coordinate a partnership between Psicológica, the journal of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), and DIGITAL.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to offer a novel model of sustainable Diamond (free) Open Access enabled by advanced Repository-as-a-Publisher services.
Since 2021 The Notify Project
We participate in the Notify project, led by COAR and funded by the Arcadia Foundation, to develop a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services.
Foundational work
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