Scholarly Futures

The connective tissue of research: why metadata and descriptors matter more than ever

A guest post by Liz Allen, Associate Director at Research Consulting Ltd and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London Policy Institute…

Jun 16 • Liz Allen

Open Science Shifts: Is the Global South Driving Forward While the Global North Plays Catch-Up?

Last month PLOS published a report on radically changing research outputs in an open science world. With pressures growing could the answers on…

Jun 9 • Sarah Greaves

Echoes from another place

By asking an LLM to source interesting articles and emerging research relevant to Scholarly Futures, we inadvertently opened up a window into some of…

Jun 2 • Jon Treadway

From Infrastructure to Commons

Can the publishing industry survive the geopolitical shift toward digital sovereignty and all that comes with it?

May 26 • Mark Huskisson

AI and the practical scientist

We are entering a window of opportunity in which collaboration between human researchers and AI systems will bear the most fruit. But it will not last…

May 19 • John Hammersley

From Buying Access to Building Infrastructure: Why Open Access Must Move Beyond Transformative Agreements

Our next guest post is from Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, who updates on what is next for Open Research Europe and why it matters.

May 13 • Kamran Naim

Consolidating and merging: new partners emerging in an ever changing market

The Scholarly Futures have pondered in the past about whether mergers of publishers will continue, and what implications this would have for…

May 6 • Sarah Greaves and Jon Treadway

What Gets Funded, What Gets Lost: Will funding irretrievably shift the foundational research that science relies on?

Science funding is determining what academics can and will research - with foundational, core areas of science missing out. Will this science be lost…

Apr 28 • Sarah Greaves

Scholarly Futures

An exploratory project to debate the uncertain future of scholarly communication, research practices, and academic publishing amid accelerating change.

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