Alternative publishing models and evaluation: talk at the CSIC Predoctoral Network

On May 6 I gave an online talk at the CSIC Predoctoral Network’s open session on scholarly communication, arguing that Europe has already built every piece of an alternative system.

On 6 May 2026 I gave an online talk at an open session organised by the CSIC Predoctoral Network on scholarly communication and open access.

My talk argued that Europe has already built every piece of an open, community-governed scholarly communication system — institutional repositories, national infrastructures like DIGITAL.CSIC, generalist archives like Zenodo, open review services like PCI, aggregators like OpenAIRE, and open metrics projects like GraspOS. What could accelerate the process towards a wider adoption of this alternative publication route are two policy mandates: requiring that evaluated outputs be deposited in open repositories, and mandating open peer review.

The argument is developed in an interactive diagram you can explore here:

Click the workflow steps (A → B → C → D) and the policy mandates to explore the argument. Use the narrative panel on the left to navigate.  ·  Open in new tab ↗

Many thanks to the CSIC Predoctoral Network for the invitation and for organising the event.