The CSI is pleased to announce the publication of “The Open Access Diamond Journals Study: Exploring collaborative community-driven publishing models for Open Access” in the form of two reports: an in-depth report and then associated recommendations arising from the study of open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. In conjunction with the SEPS (Socio-economics of academic publications) research program held at the CSI, this research sheds light on the diversity of resources and business models for the majority of existing open access journals, often dismissed compared to the more known author-payer model.

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A central puzzle of COVID-19 is why some nations have so successfully contained the virus while others have failed. Even more puzzling is how nations with similar systems of government and demographics have experienced the pandemic in such different ways.

To understand what leads to such contrasting situations, an international research project entitled ” Comparative Covid Response (CompCoR)” has been launched, with the support of Schmidt Futures and the National Science Foundation, by teams […]

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Morgan Meyer and Franck Cochoy

The health crisis has radically transformed the existence of the mask. Before the crisis, it was hardly visible in public debates and little worn by the public. Uncertainties and debates have proliferated as the crisis unfolds and the mask is an object that crystallises health, economic and social issues. What is most surprising is the following paradox: an object that is a priori very simple, cheap, and easy to produce… has been transformed into a coveted object, a controversial object. To understand this tension between mass object and singular object, we need to […]

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