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Description: While perspectives on open scholarship practices (OSPs) are noted in editorials and positions papers, we lack reliable insights into how the larger community understands, feels about, engages with, and supports OSPs in practice—insights that could inform current disciplinary conversations about OSPs in Communication and historicize how the field shifts in response to ongoing discourses around OS in the current moment. A non-targeted, mixed-methodological census survey of International Communication Association members (N = 330) suggested a broad familiarity with and support for some OSPs, but less engagement with them. In open-ended prompts, respondents expressed several concerns, including reservations about unclear standards, presumed incompatibility with some scholarly approaches, misuse of shared materials, and a toxic culture surrounding open scholarship.