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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks to Alicia Wise for starting a new conversation thread. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Let’s recall that Alicia’s question was, “what positive things are established scholarly publishers doing to facilitate the various visions for open access and future scholarly communications that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am sure that Elsevier is keen to hear any suggestions for things it can do to progress OA, but let’s not forget the other publishers too: What are they doing right, and what could they do better?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And wouldn’t it be great if other publishers started to share their thoughts with us too? Surely it is time for the research community to enter into a <b>public</b> dialogue with publishers? Who knows what benefits might follow?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>GOAL Moderator<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>