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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We’d like to bring your attention to a currently
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/openpub">open call for contributions</a> to a special issue of “Publications”<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> (ISSN 2304-6775)
</span>that we are co-editing, with the theme of new frontiers for openness in scholarly publishing – basically, where should the movement to bring more openness to publishing, as well as scholarship in general, go from here (or not – we really welcome critical
reflections on the limits of openness too!). Data-driven or theoretical submissions are equally welcome!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The journal is open access with no APCs – the scope of the call is below, and the deadline for submissions is end March 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We really hope that this special issue can contribute to free discussion of the future of open scholarship and the agenda towards transparency and participation in general, to try
to move these conversations forward. We especially welcome submissions from groups or regions currently underrepresented in such conversations. Therefore, if you know of anyone who might be interested but is not a member of these lists or similar channels
of conversation, please pass on this invitation. Help us break out of our filter bubble!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">If you would like to make a pre-submission inquiry or even just bounce ideas, we’d be delighted to hear from you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">With best wishes,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bianca Kramer, Jon Tennant and Tony Ross-Hellauer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#423709">“Publications” Special Issue
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<h1 style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#423709">"New Frontiers for Openness in Scholarly Publishing"<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/openpub">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/openpub</a>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Open Scholarship (also often called Open Science) is reshaping the scope and nature of scholarly publishing in its technological, social, legal, economic, and ethical dimensions.
However, while more and more transparency is now often expected of researchers, major elements of scholarly publishing processes and the policies that govern them remain relatively opaque. Peer review and editorial selection remain largely hidden from view,
business models and operating costs often lack transparency, proprietary platforms and technologies create walled gardens for research, licensing and metadata restrictions limit re-use, and data about all these processes are usually kept closed. How might
the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem benefit from increased interoperability, transparency, and accessibility of processes and data?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Here, we welcome contributions that seek to investigate how increased interoperability, transparency, and accessibility of processes and data could aid scholarly publishing to
best serve the needs of scholarship and wider society. Equally, critical views that engage with the benefits of ‘closed’ or proprietary systems are encouraged. Our intention is to increase the critical discourse surrounding this rapidly evolving landscape,
and we encourage submissions from the global research community.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">This issue especially welcomes contributions that address the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open and interoperable infrastructure, platforms, services, and tools</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">De-centralisation, open-source or community-driven efforts</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Benefits and drawbacks of transparency and harmonisation of policies for peer review, preprints, ethics, data-availability, licensing, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Transparency of costs (e.g., APCs, subscriptions, big deals)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Business models for publishing</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Openness in editorial processes, including peer review and editorial selection</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interoperable metadata, for instance, openness of citation data and other sources for metrics</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data-sharing to optimise editorial processes</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social, political, and economic arguments for the different aspects of ‘open scholarship’</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publishing’s place in the evolving scope of research in modern society</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The intersection of scholarly publishing and (changing) research norms</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer<br>
<i>Editor-in-Chief</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Dr. Bianca Kramer<br>
Dr. Jon Tennant<br>
<i>Guest Editors</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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