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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Open access advocates in Europe are becoming increasingly concerned that OA is in danger of being appropriated by publishers, and in a way that will see the “publishing oligopoly” maintain an unhealthy grip on scholarly communication. Amongst other things, they worry, it will allow legacy publishers to continue charging the research community excessive fees for the services they provide.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Keen to find alternative models, some have been casting jealous eyes on the Global South and pointing to Latin American initiatives like SciELO and Redalyc. Both these services started out as online bibliographic databases, but over time have added more and more freely-available full-text content from regional journals. Today SciELO hosts 573,525 research articles from 1,249 journals. Redalyc has more than 425,000 full-text articles from over 1,000 journals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>But does Western Europe need to look as far afield as Latin America for this kind of model? The Moscow-based CyberLeninka, for instance, reports that it currently hosts 940,000 papers from 990 journals, all of which are open access, and approximately 70% of which are available under a CC BY licence. And it has amassed this content in just three years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Moreover, CyberLeninka has achieved this without the support of either the Russian government, or any private venture capital, as Chief Strategy Officer at CyberLeninka Mikhail Sergeev explains in a Q&A. Rather, the service was created, and is maintained, by just five people working from home. The goal: to create a prototype for a Russian open science infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>But could CyberLeninka be developing a solution that the West could learn from? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>The Q&A with Sergeev can be access here: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.ru/2016/01/the-oa-interviews-mikhail-sergeev-chief.html">http://poynder.blogspot.ru/2016/01/the-oa-interviews-mikhail-sergeev-chief.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>