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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'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Glenn Hampson [mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 19 July 2017 18:31<br><b>To:</b> 'Richard Poynder' <richard.poynder@btinternet.com>; scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org; 'The Open Scholarship Initiative' <osi2016-25@googlegroups.com><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [SCHOLCOMM] On sponsorship, transparency, scholarly publishing, and open access<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-US>Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>I’d like to take this opportunity to invite everyone in the scholcomm community to nominate individuals (self-nominations are welcome) to participate in this year’s efforts of the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI). Here’s what we’re about (from a draft version of our preamble, which is being finalized this summer):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The principles and practices of scholarly communication are critical to the advancement of research and research knowledge. OSI’s mission is to build a robust framework for communication, coordination and cooperation among all nations and stakeholders in order to improve scholarly communication, beginning with scholarly publishing—to find common understanding and just, achievable, sustainable, inclusive solutions, and to work toward these solutions together in order to increase the amount of research information available to the world, as well as the number of people everywhere who can access this information. The guiding principles of OSI are to involve the entire stakeholder community in a collaborative effort; to value all stakeholder voices and perspectives; to thoughtfully consider the consequences of all approaches; to coordinate and collaborate on developing joint solutions and efforts; and to pursue and continue refining solutions over time to ensure their implementation, effectiveness, and success.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>OSI includes high-level decision makers from all stakeholder groups and many different countries. We would particularly appreciate being able to add more active researchers and authors to OSI this year, more university provosts, and more industry leaders, policy makers, funder reps and journalists. Increasing the number of voices from outside the US and EU is also a goal. There are currently about 375 leaders on the OSI listserv, representing 18 different stakeholder groups, 23 countries and 250 institutions. Of these individuals, about 50 represent research universities (in an official capacity), 40 are library or library group leaders, 35 represent commercial publishers, 30 represent government policy organizations, 30 represent open knowledge groups and “born open” publishers, and 20 represent scholarly societies. Nominations will be considered by the advisory group. OSI tries to maintain a balance in terms of the number of representatives from each stakeholder group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>I would also like to take this opportunity to correct the statement made by Richard Poynder in his piece yesterday about the influence of funding from scholarly publishers, at least with regard to OSI. Much as I don’t want to take up my time and yours by arguing these points, and much as I value Richard’s scholarship and analysis, I do have a responsibility to OSI and its supporters and members to not allow misstatements like these to linger (even if no one ends up reading this email, I have a responsibility to correct the record). As a general point, it has certainly been well-documented that research funding can influence research outcomes. “Soft” sponsorships are a much murkier case, however. We’re talking here about everything from television commercials to billboards to the ads that pop up alongside New York Times articles. Sponsors make it possible for programs and events to happen---not just in scholcomm but in medicine, sports, tech, news, on university campuses and in public parks. Right or wrong, sponsorships are part of modern society and an important part at that. As far as OSI is concerned, we are grateful for the interest and support we’ve received from our sponsors to-date and we welcome support from all interested sources. Indeed, we would ideally like to see universities take over most of the funding responsibilities for this effort if only because scholcomm reform is such a university-centric set of issues (spread between 100 campuses, this wouldn’t amount to much at all), but until/unless this happens, UNESCO, foundations, publishers, and OSI members themselves will carry the load.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>Here are the specific corrections to Richard’s article:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>“Membership of OSI is made up primarily of legacy publishers and US librarians.” This is incorrect. As noted above, about 10% of OSI members are commercial publishing reps and another 10% are librarians. However, most OSI reps wear several hats, so research university reps are often library heads and scholarly society reps may come from their publishing division. This may be a source of Richard’s misinterpretation. Even counting this overlap, though, the totals are far from “primarily.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>“…as the funding provided for OSI by UNESCO has been falling, so the contributions of legacy publishers have been increasing.” OSI has an annual operating budget of only about US$150,000 at the moment. We’re not talking a lot of money here. And there have only been two years of funding, which is not enough to start drawing trendlines. In year one (for OSI2016), commercial publishers supplied $27,500 of funding for a program that cost $168,850. In year two they supplied $50,000 for a program that cost $134,300---more money for a cheaper program. In the same period, foundation support almost doubled from $25,000 to $45,000, UNESCO support fell by almost half (a temporary situation), participant registration fees were slashed from $58,000 to $13,500 and scholarship support grew from a few thousand dollars to over $20,000 this year. So what kind of story you want to write about these meager totals really depends on what kind of axe you’re looking to grind---UNESCO is down, foundations are up, etc. The bottom line is that we did more with less in 2017 and these budget numbers will change again next year when UNESCO will hopefully be able to contribute more. Also, we’ve never hidden these raw figures so there’s no need to interpret secondary source material. These numbers are in the OSI reports and website, and available on request:<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ol><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=473 style='width:354.75pt;margin-left:30.6pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.5pt;background:white;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>OSI INCOME<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.5pt;background:white;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>OSI2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.5pt;background:white;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>OSI2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>UNESCO<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$48,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$25,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Foundations<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$25,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$20,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$20,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Laura & John Arnold Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Commercial publishers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Elsevier<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$7,500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$20,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Taylor & Francis (Informa)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$10,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Wiley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$7,500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$10,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Sage Publications<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Copyright Clearance Center<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$2,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>ResearchMedia<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Universities<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>PressForward Institute (via Sloan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$5,500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>George Mason University<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$4,500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Participant fees (@ $500 ea)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$58,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$13,500<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Private donations<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$350<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$800<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr><tr style='height:1.0pt'><td width=276 nowrap valign=top style='width:206.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Total income<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=100 nowrap valign=top style='width:75.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;border-right:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$168,850<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><td width=97 nowrap valign=top style='width:73.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #8EAADB 1.0pt;background:#D9E2F3;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>$134,300<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></tr></table><ol start=3 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>“the [OSI listserv] discussion frequently gets bogged down in bad-tempered, unproductive conversations (see here for instance). But since they hold the purse strings it is publishers who will likely determine the outcomes (as Prosser fears).” We haven’t surveyed OSI members about the list. Almost all of the feedback I receive is very positive but we do need to get a handle on what everyone thinks. What I can say is that there are 2,500 messages shared per year on this list and the vast majority of these are very thoughtful and informative. Also, we have heard from members who would like to see other ways to drive conversations off-list, and we’re looking into these solutions this year. It is true that there are occasions when some OSI members (including Richard) will occasionally protest the concept of OSI or including publishers in this conversation, and this results in a frustrating period of a few days when I need to remind folks that OSI is a diverse and inclusive group and that it’s important to treat each other with respect. But this is all part of the challenge of this diverse group. As far as determining outcomes, commercial publishers do very little speaking on the OSI list at the moment relative to much more vocal anti-publisher voices. They are not driving conversations on-list. As for off-list influence, there are no sponsorship quid pro quos from any OSI funders. Indeed, we are beholden to our foundation and UNESCO supporters to keep this effort open and balanced; our commercial publisher supporters have never requested anything (other than poster space). I assure you that there would never be a situation where we would accept any amount from any funder in exchange for twisting the truth---I don’t even know what that kind of scenario would look like Richard (“Hello, OSI? We’ll give you $100k if you promote Product X as the new solution to peer review?” Really? Can I keep $99k of that for my legal bills?)<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>“Sponsored conversations can also lead to censorship. When in 2016, for instance, someone criticised a publisher on the OSI mailing list the moderator promptly deleted his comments, inaccurately portraying them as a “personal dispute”. In fact, as an advisor to the criticised publisher later pointed out, the criticism was justified and appropriate.” Correct. If I recall correctly, I thought this conversation had to do with someone’s sour grapes about their publishing contract and was therefore inappropriate for the OSI listserv (or any listserv for that matter). I was wrong, I apologized to the group, and I corrected my mistake. Indeed, the ensuing conversation helped clarify that there would never be any censorship on the OSI list, so this wasn’t a negative outcome but a positive. Censorship comes about in many ways Richard---take intolerance or social media bubbles, for instance---as I’m sure you’ll agree. Having someone you disagree with in a group conversation doesn’t lead to censorship. Shouting down that person’s right to speak or claiming their perspective isn’t legitimate are, however, both very powerful forms of censorship. Indeed, I would argue that in this particular context, the fear of getting ridiculed on social media by people who are unwilling to see your point of view or even acknowledge your right to co-exist in the scholcomm marketplace is a much more corrosive, much more pervasive influence in the scholcomm conversation than the soft power of sponsorships by people and organizations who are willing and able to help promote this dialogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>I think those are the main points. As always, if you have any questions you are welcome to email me any time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>Thank you and best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US>Glenn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Glenn Hampson</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><br></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Executive Director</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><br></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>National Science Communication Institute (nSCI)</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><br></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Program Director<br>Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'><img width=160 height=20 style='width:1.6666in;height:.2083in' id="gmail-m_621941577720855768m_3561926850496017498m_3966225017124161058Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D30073.F562FAA0" alt=osi-logo-2016-25-mail></span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>2320 N 137th Street | Seattle, WA 98133</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><br></span></span><a href="tel:(206)%20417-3607" target="_blank"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>(206) 417-3607</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'> | </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><a href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org" target="_blank"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>ghampson@nationalscience.org</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'> | </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><a href="http://nationalscience.org/" target="_blank"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>nationalscience.org</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> <a href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org">scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org</a> [<a href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org">mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>"Richard Poynder" (via scholcomm Mailing List)<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 18, 2017 5:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [SCHOLCOMM] On sponsorship, transparency, scholarly publishing, and open access<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sponsorship in the research and library communities is pervasive today, and scholarly publishers are some of the most generous providers of it. While the benefits of this sponsorship to the research community at large are debatable, publishers gain a great deal of soft power from dispensing money in this way. And they use this soft power to help them contain, control and shape the changes scholarly communication is undergoing, often in ways that meet their needs more than the needs of science and of scientists. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This sponsorship also often takes place without adequate transparency. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>These are the kinds of issues explored in this (pdf) document </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://bit.ly/2taOuoL"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://bit.ly/2taOuoL</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, which includes some examples of publisher sponsorship, and the associated problems of non-transparency that often go with it. In particular, there is a detailed case study of a series of interviews conducted by Library Journal with leading OA advocates that was sponsored by Dove Medical Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Amongst those interviewed was the de facto leader of the OA movement Peter Suber. Suber gave three separate interviews to LJ, but not once was he informed when invited that the interviews were sponsored, or that they would be flanked with ads for Dove – even though he made it clear after the first interview that he was not happy to be associated with the publisher in this way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://bit.ly/2taOuoL"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://bit.ly/2taOuoL</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>