TY - CONF T1 - Rethinking Openness: Challenges and New Approaches to Open Scholarly Journals T2 - Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices Y1 - 2017 A1 - Andre Luiz Appel A1 - Maria Lucia Maciel A1 - Sarita Albagli KW - Open Access KW - open scholarly journals KW - Open Science KW - Scholarly Journals AB - This paper's main objective is to present and discuss some results of a research project in progress on issues currently in debate on open scholarly journals dedicated to the publication of research outputs on an open, democratic and transparent basis. It contemplates a brief review of the literature about challenges regarding openness of the current scholarly publication system and political-economic constraints to its democratization, to support the analysis of two case studies on open publication platforms – Research Ideas and Outcomes and Wellcome Open Research – based on information available on their websites. As results, we present an analysis of publication practices and policies in action on these platforms and their policies. JA - Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices T3 - ELPUB CY - Limassol, Cyprus SP - 129-137 J1 - ELPUB2017 ID - 10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-129 M3 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-129 SN - 978-1-61499-769-6 ER -