Getting Your Library to Open: Four Steps and Five Measures commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/sg67g2up

"The Conquest of ProQuest, from Clarivate and Knowledge Unlatched : How recent mergers are bad for research and the public” — new post from IOI’s Community Oversight Council: investinopen.org/blog/the-conqu… Cc Shea Swauger @greenarchives1 Robert Montoya Baffss #openaccess #openscience #openinfra

The visibility this tool will provide show where value is added and where it is extracted by publishers. It's about time. coalition-s.org/coalition-s-st…

blog.ourresearch.org/openalex-launc… A very important development that lays the ground work for open challenges to large commercial firms in the realm of analytics. The disruptive challenger of open moves up market.

investinopen.org/blog/announcin… A nice beginning in documenting the open scholarly infrastructure. First step in developing a community wide view of what we need to support and how much we will need to invest.

Replacing academic journals doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… This is not technically difficult and there's enough money. This is a coordination problem, especially in the US. I'd suggest that the Europeans need to lead and US institutions should just put up cash and follow.

torrentfreak.com/browser-extens… Seems inevitable. When artificial scarcity is created to drive up price and profits, a back market will result. And clever people will win the wack-a-mole game.

direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a… Unsurprising paywalled research restricts innovation. Read about it in this paywalled article.

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue on Open Access. Learn more at journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/41/

arxiv.org/abs/2205.01833 This is a very important development as open disruption moves up market. If the OA scholarly articles are rebar, this is small I-beams. See Clayton Christensen on the steel industry if you don't get the reference.

journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/49/

ostp-letter.github.io I would encourage everyone to endorse this.