Publications | Special Issue : AI in Open Access

"We aim to discuss how AI can be harnessed to prioritize community-driven knowledge dissemination, ensuring that academic research remains accessible, equitable, and free from commercial constraints.

The academic landscape is rapidly evolving, with AI offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance the peer-review process, improve research accessibility, and promote sustainable publishing practices. However, these advancements also bring challenges in balancing innovation with the core values of openness and community empowerment. We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue as we navigate the possibilities that AI brings to open access publishing, with a shared commitment to fostering inclusive, sustainable, and transparent scholarly communication.

We solicit and encourage manuscripts that deal with the following and related topics:

1. Application of generative AI in open-access;
2. Open science;
3. Community-engaged knowledge-sharing mechanism;
4. Sustainable development strategies for the publishing industry;
5. Digital transformation of academic journals and innovation in open-access publishing models;
6. Legal and intellectual property challenges;
7. Promotion of diverse and transparent academic communication systems...."