On 15/04/2020 16.52, Kathleen Shearer wrote: > To that end, we are calling on researchers, policy makers, funders, > service providers, universities and libraries from around the world to > work together to address the issue of bibliodiversity in scholarly > communication. > > Read the blog post here > <https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/fostering-bibliodiversity-in-scholarly-communications-a-call-for-action/> > and full > paper here <http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3752923>
That is a great goal, which has had my full support for years. I still think a more fundamental shift in thinking in the community is required to make real progress. For instance, OA publishing in practice requires actors in the ecosystem to go through third-party actors and systems. It is hard to see the transition if we factor in the control dimension and power dynamics. The question of what constitutes a contribution or how people can participate quickly turns into understanding what works for the third-parties as opposed to content creators. As I see it, whether third-parties are non- or for-profit is not as significant as it may seem for the "big picture". If we genuinely want to realise a diverse and inclusive ecosystem, we need to acknowledge and enable different entry points. That doesn't happen by locking things down, whether that's done through using specific kinds of identifiers, data shapes, or applications. The fact of the matter is that at this point in time, the machinery and policies underlying scholarly communication is mostly a soup of vendor lock-in solutions. Until "self-publishing" through open Web standards (which does *not* preclude peer review etc) is acknowledged on equal grounds in the ecosystem, we will continue to ask ourselves the same questions about OA simply because we haven't addressed the core issues pertaining to autonomy and universal access. -Sarven https://csarven.ca/#i _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
