Knowledge Exchange: Alternative Publishing Platforms

Are you confused by all the 'alternative' scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? Today there seem to be so many ways to communicate or disseminate research. There are not only peer-reviewed academic articles, monographs, conference proceedings, or theses. Now there are also preprint repositories, data journals, specialist data and code repositories, trials registries, scholarly blogs and websites, many forms of peer review and micropublications. These different forms of publication all have different aims, such as seeking to remove the barriers, constraints and costs imposed by legacy academic publishing companies, to reduce questionable practices, or make research work more deeply accessible and reusable.

In 2022, the Knowledge Exchange started a project, named ‘Alternative Publishing Platforms’, the details of which are set out in a scoping paper (https://lnkd.in/etnvqTs2). The aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of the landscape formed by these platforms and how they can be placed in the open scholarly communication ecosystem. It also aims to provide research stakeholders (researchers, funders, research performing organisations, libraries) with information to help them identify opportunities for political and financial support for strengthening the sustainability of these platforms.

On September 21st, 2023, we published a report which shares the results from the survey we conducted earlier this year. The report gives valuable and interesting insight into the world of Alternative Publishing Platforms.

Published on the Alternative Publishing Platform PubPub: https://lnkd.in/eU_y_f5m