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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear list subscribers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just to alert you to a new post on the OpenAIRE blog that might be of interest to you, entitled
<b>“After SSRN: Hallmarks of trust for subject repositories</b>”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the aftermath of the recent sale of the social sciences pre-print and publishing community platform SSRN to Elsevier, I offer a personal view on the nature of trust in community platforms and the need to make clear the hallmarks of trust
for subject repositories, namely open governance, open source, open data.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">The issue here is not that the company has been sold, nor that it has been sold to Elsevier specifically (though the fact that the buyer is the bête noire of the open access narrative
surely doesn’t help). There is of course a place for private companies in the scholarly communications ecosystem. Running a for-profit is undoubtedly very hard and for many small companies, acquisition is their long term exit strategy.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">The
issue here is not public versus private but rather a wider one of trust.</span></i></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">Services
like Mendeley or SSRN are ”social” in nature – built to a large extent upon the contributions of their communities of users. </span></i><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">If communities of users bring
much of the value that fuels services like SSRN, why should they be content to take at face value promises which might quickly disintegrate once they come into conflict with money-making? Surely these communities deserve a stake in deciding what happens to
those services.</span></i></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">Had
users known that SSRN would eventually sell to Elsevier, many would not have joined in the first place. Now that they have, many would like to take their community elsewhere – with former users like <a href="https://medium.com/@PaulGowder/ssrn-has-been-captured-by-the-enemy-of-open-knowledge-b3e5bca6751d#.2hzdw8azh"><span style="color:#3B72B5">Paul
Gowder</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>already discussing starting a new open repository for the social sciences, for example.
</span></i><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555">These issues lead naturally to the questions: what does an “open repository” look like? How are users to identify one, and upon which criteria should librarians
and others responsible for recommending such services decide whether a service is to be recommended?</span></i></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">See: <a href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=933">https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=933</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies if not relevant to you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best to all<b> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/"><span style="color:blue">OpenAIRE</span></a> Scientific Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE">University of Göttingen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Email:
<a href="mailto:ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de"><span style="color:blue">ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +49 551 39-31818</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/tonyR_H"><span style="color:blue">@tonyR_H</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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