AI in Open Access

Dear Colleagues,

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.

Dr. Alexandre López-Borrull
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Publications is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.