<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Greetings. I get the sense that Google Scholar is becoming the default indexer for open access research in STM with slower but also increasing uptake in the SS and humanities. Google is so nearly ubiquitous now it is easy to forget they are also a commercial company. At some point, a conversation surely needs to happen regarding Google’s role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access. Is anyone aware of the status of such a conversation? Thanks.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Gary F. Daught</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Omega Alpha | Open Access</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="mailto:oa.openaccess@gmail.com">oa.openaccess@gmail.com</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com">http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com</a></font></div></body></html>