The project team behind the Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences project has recently published an article in the special issue, “Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences” in the Journal of Electronic Publishing[1].

In addition, Dr Lai Ma, Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences project lead investigator joined an online panel discussion with Dr Simon Dumas Primbault and Dr Samuel Moore about openness in the humanities and social sciences. A summary of this panel is available on the Open Research Blog Berlin.

Finally, Dr Ma and Claire Davin have also recently published a piece in the Katina Magazine that aims to provoke discussion, ‘For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair’, available to read here.

[1] Davin, C., Beck, J., & Ma, L. (2026). Open Practices, Closed Realities? Archaeological Perspectives on Open Research Practices. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 29(1) https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7833.