Issue Public Publications

Summary

Public Publications asks what would happen if academic publishing became genuinely open. In this future, scholarly publishing moves onto a single centralised platform with universal access. The platform combines machine intelligence and blockchain to strengthen research quality, innovation, diversity and global collaboration. The idea sits under the Borderless World and Fluid Economies megatrend and draws on trends such as open data, the digital economy and international collaboration. Keywords include open access, peer review, AI-powered research translation, blockchain and decentralised science, with education, government services and data science among the sectors most involved.