http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211221-235925-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/unknown-shibboleth-on-the-opacity-of-gatekeeping/ Unknown Shibboleth: On the Opacity of Gatekeeping Knoechelmann, Marcel eng 2021-12-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Academic Publishing Open Access Openness Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Without specifying its meaning or context, openness remains an empty category. It commonly evokes a positive sentiment, but what does it mean to say: We are opening up this or that? And what does it disguise? It even compares with excellence in this respect: a word that is en vogue to be thrown into debates about the future of the academy.