Helping researchers navigate ‘open’: communities and reforms

Key Points

• The aim is to explore and understand the dynamics of open access and community governance in knowledge production.
• Review of different proposed models for commons development and governance
• Analysis of ownership issues in open access publishing
• Examination of free/open licensing frameworks, particularly in relation to GenAI
• Identified alternative models for cooperative commons development
• Highlighted significant governance issues in knowledge production
• Outlined implications of free/open licensing for emerging technologies like GenAI

Abstract