FORCE2026

Landing — Open Journals Collective

We're a collective of libraries, university presses, and non-profit publishers reshaping academic research.

The Research Nexus vision for a more connected scholarly community

Crossref envisions “a rich and reusable open network of relationships connecting research organizations, people, things, and actions; a scholarly record that the global community can build on forever, for the benefit of society”. This Research Nexus expands on the importance of research objects being persistently and uniquely identified. The scholarly community has an established practice of connecting things such as citations to others’ work and it is increasingly critical to identify relationships beyond citations, bringing together published work, unpublished work, institutions, individuals, and identifying the actions that they take e.g., funding, publishing, creating, modifying, citing, and sharing. The Research Nexus brings together metadata and relationships to build a joined-up picture of the scholarly ecosystem and helps everyone identify these relationships and how they change through time. This vision is possible if all parts of the scholarly ecosystem (and beyond) work together, including various scholarly infrastructure organizations.

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.

We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.

We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

eLife Pathways home page

Moving beyond legacy publishing requires interoperable open-source infrastructure. With Wellcome’s support, we are evolving eLife’s technology to anchor a collaborative network, partnering with the open science community to reshape the communication and assessment of global research.

Single-Source Publishing Community

Join the Single-Source Publishing Community for open, interoperable, and sustainable scholarly publishing workflows.

Open Science 2.0: Building Understanding in an AI-Mediated World - The Scholarly Kitchen

Open Science 2.0 must focus not only on access, but also on trust, interpretation, learning, and effective communication. The challenge facing the scholarly publishing ecosystem is ensuring that what is open is also trustworthy, understandable, and genuinely useful.

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Center for Open Science

At the Center for Open Science, our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. Promoting these practices within the research funding and publishing communities accelerates scientific progress

Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.

Coordinating Research Assessment And Publishing Reform: Action Groups – ASAPbio

Connect with focused ASAPbio groups working on specific aspects of scientific communication, from preprint review to community engagement.

Governing the scholarly AI Commons – Open Future

New report explores how academic communities can shape AI governance in research and publishing, from regulation to community-led approaches.

Newsrewired

13-14 May 2026 | A conference for innovators in digital publishing