The concept and practice of open scholarship are gaining prominence in local, national, and international contexts. Although distinct from the Open Access movement, open scholarship activities build on a foundation of access to research output. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues, “[e]nabling access to scholarly work does not just serve the goal of undoing its commercialization or removing it from a market-driven, competition-based economy, but rather is a first step in facilitating public engagement with the knowledge that universities produce” (2019, 148). Open access, here, is a crucial “first step” to something broader, more complex, and importantly, more centred on public engagement...

[This publication is an introduction to the proceedings of 2 related conferences: "Knowledge Engagement in the 21st Century: Approaches to Open, Digital Scholarship" (December 2019, Newcastle, NSW, AUS) and "Open Scholarship for the 2020s" (January 2020, Victoria, BC, CAN).]

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Original publication: Arbuckle, Alyssa, Rachel Hendery, Luis Meneses, and Ray Siemens. 2020. “Introduction: Open Scholarship in the 21st Century.” Pop! Public. Open. Participatory. 2: n.p. DOI:10.48404/pop.2020.01