As a service to the community, Electronic Markets' publisher offers a collection of five selected papers for free access. The collection changes every two months and is also announced on Electronic Markets' social media presences.

The current collection of articles is freely accessible from September 1 to October 31, 2025:

• Digital communications between firms and investors: Impact of explanatory responses on investor engagement in online financial Q&A by Runyu Wang, Zili Zhang, Keng Leng Siau & Ziqiong Zhang. Electronic Markets, 35.
• Superstar effects in a platform-based local market: The role of customer usage of online-to-offline platforms and spatial agglomeration by Jing Chen, Xing Wan & Jing Yang. Electronic Markets, 33.
• Does platform dependence always reduce the fairness perception of seller? by Chunhua Ju, Qi Guo, Hui Jiang & Yong Wang. Electronic Markets, 35.
• Augmenting the reality of decision-making: Comparing and combining product experiences’ influence on choice difficulty and mental imagery by Maaike Ven, Lieve Doucé, Kim Willems, Felitsa Rademakers, Malaika Brengman & Philippine Loupiac. Electronic Markets, 35.
• A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) study on the formation mechanism of Internet platform companies’ social responsibility risks by Tongfang Lyu & Qitaisong Shen. Electronic Markets, 34.