The Open Psychology Journal

The Open Psychology Journal is an open-access journal that publishes research articles, reviews/mini-reviews, case reports, perspectives, letters and guest-edited single-topic issues in all areas of psychology. The journal’s coverage includes applied psychology; clinical psychology; developmental psychology; experimental psychology; educational psychology; social psychology and psychoanalysis

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The impact of AI bots and crawlers on open repositories

A new report from COAR reveals the profound impact of AI bots on Open Access repositories as these are slowing down services and affecting human use of collections.   Longer term this could have implications for the open access movement if providers seek to restrict access to publications to limit this aggressive activity.  A task force is being launched to address these concerns.

Report of the COAR Survey on AI Bots- June 2025

International Open Access Week: 21st - 27th October 2024

Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia and for society as a whole.

To celebrate the contribution of Tavistock and Portman staff to the Open Access movement a selection of recent publications can be seen here:

Open Access publications - Tavistock and Portman Staff Publications Online

Making AI an opportunity for open access

 

Interesting White Paper from Wiley on both the potential and the challenges of AI within scholarly publications:

Making AI an Opportunity for Open Access (wiley.com)

Open Access Week 2023 (October 23-29, 2023)

 

This year’s theme is 'Community over Commercialization' and seeks to encourage a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community - and which do not.

See more information here:

International Open Access Week

Open Access Network website

Useful website with an introduction to Open Access:

open-access.network: What is Open Access?

and Open Access in psychology:

open-access.network: Open Access in Psychology

The Platformisation of Scholarly Information and How to Fight It

Abstract of article on current issues within Open Access by Lai Ma:

The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open access movement and interfered with the ethical principles of information access and privacy. In recent years, vertical integration of publishers and other service providers throughout the research cycle has led to platformisation, characterized by datafication and commodification similar to practices on social media platforms. Scholarly publications are treated as user-generated contents for data tracking and surveillance, resulting in profitable data products and services for research assessment, benchmarking and reporting. Meanwhile, the bibliodiversity and equal open access are denied by the dominant gold open access model and the privacy of researchers is being compromised by spyware embedded in research infrastructure. This article proposes four actions to fight the platformisation of scholarly information after a brief overview of the market of academic journals and research assessments and their implications for bibliodiversity, information access, and privacy: (1) Educate researchers about commercial publishers and APCs; (2) Allocate library budget to support scholar-led and library publishing; (3) Engage in the development of public research infrastructures and copyright reform; and (4) Advocate for research assessment reforms.

Download here: 

https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.13561