OASPA is delighted to announce its upcoming webinar, “Rethinking Innovative Open Scholarly Outputs: Practice, Recognition, and Impact,” taking place on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. This free event will explore emerging forms of open scholarly publishing that challenge traditional academic formats—particularly beyond the monograph—and examine their place in research evaluation and institutional recognition.
In an increasingly digital and open research environment, new forms of scholarly output—such as interactive platforms, data narratives, open peer review reports, living documents, and multimodal formats—are reshaping how knowledge is created and shared. Yet despite their potential and growing usage, these outputs often remain undervalued or overlooked in conventional academic assessment systems.
This webinar will bring together a panel of experts and practitioners to discuss:
- What types of innovative open outputs are being used and embraced by researchers?
- What motivates—or deters—researchers from exploring these new formats?
- What institutional and cultural challenges limit their visibility or acceptance?
- How can evaluation systems evolve to more fairly recognize and reward innovation in scholarly communication?
Confirmed Speakers
- Johan Rooryck – Executive Director, cOAlition S
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick – Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University
- Alessia Cogo – Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication, King’s College London
- Moderator: Saskia de Vries, Coordinator of the OASPA Interest Group on Experimental Publishing
This session will offer an opportunity to hear from leading voices in open access and scholarly innovation and to participate in a dialogue about the future of research communication.
📅 Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
💻 Register here: https://bit.ly/registration-july-2025
🎙️ Free and open to all
Whether you are a researcher, librarian, publisher, or policy-maker, this webinar is a chance to reflect on how scholarly practices are evolving—and what needs to change to support them.
See original post on OASPA website. Webinar sponsored by Royal Society of Chemistry.
