Pandelis Perakakis
Founder & coordinator
Researcher in psychophysiology and open science, and managing editor of Psicológica. Has argued for open access and research-assessment reform for two decades.
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What is Open Scholar?
Open Scholar is a group of active academics who believe that Science deserves a more efficient, ethical, and transparent system of communication, validation and evaluation.
Our mission is to develop ideas and tools that promote open and transparent scientific collaboration for a faster, more efficient and natural organisation, evaluation and dissemination of global knowledge.
Open Scholar began in 2012 as a Community Interest Company registered in the United Kingdom. Today it is an independent group of academics, with no commercial or institutional affiliation, developing and promoting tools for a more open and transparent scholarship. We work as a set of parallel projects, and each of us contributes where and when we can.
The trajectory
- 2012 Founded, and LIBRE launched: our first prototype for open, community-led evaluation.
- 2013 The Independent Peer Review Manifesto sets out our common vision.
- 2014–17 The Open Peer Review Module is built with a five-partner consortium, funded by OpenAIRE.
- 2017–20 Work with COAR on Next Generation Repositories.
- 2019 Psicológica moves into DIGITAL.CSIC — a journal running entirely on a repository.
- 2021 The Notify project begins, carrying the ideas into shared infrastructure.
Founders
Michael Taylor
Co-founder
Co-author of Open Scholar's founding work on research evaluation, bibliometrics, and open peer review.
Varvara Trachana
Co-founder
Molecular biologist and co-author of Open Scholar's early work on rankings and the state of science.
Working team
Alberto Pascual
Theoretical Biology
Daniel Sanabria
Experimental Psychology
Luis González MacDowell
Chemical Physics
Vasilis Dakos
Theoretical Ecology