OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
Part of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship

Reimagining scholarly publishing to promote credible and trustworthy research

The purpose of scholarly publishing is to facilitate the communication and interrogation of evidence and claims to advance knowledge production. The business of scholarly publishing interferes with this purpose. Research is inhibited by a scholarly publishing system that [1] is slow, incomplete, opaque, and static, [2] treats the paper as the only meaningful scholarly output, [3] offers dysfunctional, simplistic rewards based on publication and journal status, and [4] is calcified in legacy, commercial business models and infrastructure. The Lifecycle Journal is an alternative approach to scholarly publishing intended to address these weaknesses and align the practice of scholarly publishing with its purpose.
Date: 7 March 2025, 13:00
Venue: Online
Speakers: Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Bodleian Libraries
Organiser contact email address: oxfos@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Open Scholarship
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f543a81f-1b60-45d2-85ab-176cdec6496e@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Sarah Humphreys, Melanie Smith, David Phillips, Polly Bannister, Bethanie Saward