Alternative publishing models and evaluation: talk at the CSIC Predoctoral Network
On 6 May 2026 I gave an online talk at organised by the CSIC Predoctoral Network on alternative models of academic pubishing.
My talk argued that the necessary pieces for an alternative, open, community-governed scholarly communication system already exist: 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.