OPEN ACCESS IN QUESTION: new agendas and challenges

After almost twenty years of the Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration (2002) and considering recurring controversies surrounding scholarly journals, one can consider valid to investigate the reconfiguration and possible new dimensions regarding the crisis and how it affects the Science production process. Our aim with this study is to address the aspects related to the serials crisis, as well as their contemporary implications, by systematizing arguments related to the main contemporary topics and challenges regarding this issue, as well as to characterize the emergence of new a ecosystem for the scholarly communication process, consisting of new publication platforms and infrastructures. In the data collection process, we worked with critical approaching to the literature, interviews with experts and advocates, as well as identifying and debating emerging and innovative initiatives regarding the topic of the scholarly communication system. As results, we highlight the potential of increasing the variety of scientific objects in circulation, extending their conditions of interoperability, the configuration of open infrastructures and community governance, as wells as more critical processes such as the appropriation of open access as business model and the verticalization and algorithmization of services supporting scientific research.