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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks for this Glenn, the fact that these two initiatives have emerged within days of each other without any apparent co-ordination (presumably because neither knew about the other one?) makes me wonder whether a new spirit of collaboration and cohesiveness is indeed emerging. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I also wonder about the compatibility of the two groups. The Call for Action document appears to be a scholar-led initiative expressing concern about the role that what are referred to as the oligopolists are playing in the scholarly publishing space. For instance, it states, “For decades, commercial companies in the academic publishing sector have been carrying out portfolio building strategies based on mergers and acquisitions of large companies as well as buying up small publishers or journals. The result of this has been a concentration of players in the sector, which today is dominated by a small number of companies who own thousands of journals and dozens of presses.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>OSI appears to have been receiving funding from precisely these kind of companies, including legacy publishers and other for-profit organisations (<a href="http://osiglobal.org/sponsors/">http://osiglobal.org/sponsors/</a>). In fact, in 2019 it seems to have received funding only from for-profit organisations. Or am I misreading? I realise the sums concerned are small, but it does make me wonder whether OSI can really do meaningful business with the authors of the Call to Action. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I realise you were anticipating “a few boo birds” on mailing lists on the announcement of Plan A (</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/osi2016-25/J9dJdeLyIng/0ryVgZ78AgAJ">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/osi2016-25/J9dJdeLyIng/0ryVgZ78AgAJ</a>) , <span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and perhaps you will view me as one of those boo birds. However I do wish both initiatives all the very best and I hope something good can come of them. My main concern is that no one has yet solved the collective action problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I also wish that Kathleen had answered this part of my question: “</span><span lang=EN-US>How many members of COAR are also members of cOAlition S?"</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Glenn Hampson <ghampson@nationalscience.org> <br><b>Sent:</b> 20 April 2020 16:05<br><b>To:</b> 'Kathleen Shearer' <m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com>; richard.poynder@btinternet.com; scholcomm@lists.ala.org; 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' <goal@eprints.org><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Hi Kathleen, Richard, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Can I suggest another way to look at these questions? First some background. As you know, the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is launching Plan A today (</span><a href="http://plan-a.world"><span lang=EN-US>http://plan-a.world</span></a><span lang=EN-US>). Plan A is OSI’s 2020-25 action plan, representing five years of deep thinking that OSI participants have invested in the many questions related to the future of scholarly communication reform. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Plan A looks at the “bibliodiversity” challenge a little differently. For OSI, diversity has also meant inclusion---listening to everyone’s ideas (including publishers), valuing everyone’s input, trying to develop a complete understanding of the scholarly communication landscape, and trying to reach a point where we can work together on common ground toward goals that serve all of us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>We have found over the course of our work that most everyone in the scholarly communication community recognizes the same challenges on the road ahead, we all have the same needs, and we all suffer from the same inability to see the full picture ourselves and to make change by ourselves. Fulfilling the vision of bibliodiversity will mean valuing everyone’s perspective of and contribution to the scholarly communication system, and truly working together across our real and perceived divides to achieve, together, what is in the best interest of research and society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>OSI’s common ground paper provides a deeper look at this common ground and some of the approaches suggested by OSI participants. The summary version will be published soon by Emerald Open; for now, the full-length version is available under the resources tab of the Plan A website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>My short answer to your questions, Richard, about practical matters like how all this change is going to transpire and through what mechanisms, is that for us, this needs to be decided by Plan A signatories (and will be). This effort is designed to tie into UNESCO’s ongoing open science roadmap work (which OSI is helping with). UNESCO’s plan will be presented to the UN in late 2021. The longer answer is that the real value in this conversation will come as we “expand the pie.” This isn’t about looking for compromise positions between read-only access and read-reuse, or between zero and 6-month embargo periods. It’s about truly working together on common interests, and thinking through issues in a way we haven’t before as a community (in a large-scale, diverse, high level, policy-oriented sense). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I expect our efforts will cross paths in the years ahead, Kathleen. We would be honored to collaborate and contribute to your work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Best regards to you both,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Glenn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Glenn Hampson</span></b><span lang=EN-US><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Executive Director</span></b><span lang=EN-US><br></span><a href="sci.institute"><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Science Communication Institute (SCI)</span></b></a><span lang=EN-US><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#262626'>Program Director<br></span></b><a href="osiglobal.org"><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)</span></b></a><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="osiglobal.org"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=116 height=42 style='width:1.2083in;height:.4375in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6173A.B7B1E780"></span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> </span><a href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org"><span lang=EN-US>scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US> <</span><a href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org"><span lang=EN-US>scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen Shearer (via scholcomm Mailing List)<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20, 2020 6:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:richard.poynder@btinternet.com"><span lang=EN-US>richard.poynder@btinternet.com</span></a><span lang=EN-US>; </span><a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org"><span lang=EN-US>scholcomm@lists.ala.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US>; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <</span><a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org"><span lang=EN-US>goal@eprints.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>Hello Richard,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>Yes, indeed, you are right, the coordinated actions required for bibliodiversity are similar to the efforts needed to deal with the covid19 pandemic. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>For your second question, the way I am envisioning the collaborations taking place is as follows: much of the discussions across the different stakeholder communities will happen at the national and sometimes regional level, while the international coordination will take place, in parallel, within each different stakeholder community. Although not a perfect solution, because some countries are more cohesive than others, many communities already have fairly strong regional and international relationships with their peers, including scholarly societies, libraries, funders (e.g. the funders forum at RDA), governments, as well as publishers, and repositories.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Are translation technologies adequate to the task envisaged for them in the document?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I’m not an expert on translation technologies, but my colleagues tell me that for some languages the technologies are quite far along already and work well (e.g. Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese), for others it will take a bit longer. They are suggesting a timeline for most languages to have fairly good translation tools available within the next 5 years.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Might it be that the different interests and priorities of these stakeholders are such that joint action is not possible, certainly in a way that would satisfy all the stakeholders? After all, funders got involved with open access because after 20+ years the other stakeholders had failed to work together effectively. However, in doing so, these funders appear (certainly in Europe) to be pushing the world in a direction that the authors of this report deprecate. What, practically, can the movement do to achieve the aspirations of the document beyond making a call to action or further declarations?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>The point of this call to action is to raise awareness with funders and others about this important issue. I’m not so cynical to think organizational perspectives can never change. Strategies can (and should) evolve as we gain a better understanding of the landscape, and adopt new ideas and principles. We hope that this call to action will have that type of impact.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'><br>And, yes of course not all interests will align, but we are already seeing more cohesiveness at the national level than in the past. In Canada, where I am based, for example, the funders, libraries and local Canadian publishers are now in regular dialogue and collaborating to work on common action items and to better align policies, funding and infrastructure. This is also happening in other jurisdictions such as France with its </span><a href="https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/the-committee-for-open-science/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif;color:#1155CC'>Committee for Open Science</span></a><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'> <span lang=EN-US>and Portugal where the national funder, universities (including libraries and university presses) and scholarly societies have created and maintain a national infrastructure for Open Access (hosting repositories and journals) and aligned policies.</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>All the best, </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif'>Kathleen</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Kathleen Shearer</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Executive Director</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>www.coar-repositories.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On Apr 16, 2020, at 1:31 AM, Richard Poynder <</span><a href="mailto:richard.poynder@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-US>richard.poynder@gmail.com</span></a><span lang=EN-US>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>“Designing a system that fosters bibliodiversity, while also supporting research at the international level is extremely challenging. It means achieving a careful balance between unity and diversity; international and local; and careful coordination across different stakeholder communities and regions in order to avoid a fragmented ecosystem.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>That seems to me to be a key paragraph in this document. And the pandemic — which requires that information is shared very quickly and broadly, and across borders — does certainly highlight the fact that the current scholarly communication system leaves a lot to be desired. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have three questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Are translation technologies adequate to the task envisaged for them in the document? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>How is it envisaged that researchers, policymakers, funders, service providers, universities and libraries from around the world will all work together, and by means of what forum? I know there are a number of organisations and initiatives focused on the different issues raised in the document (not least COAR) but how exactly, and by what means, will these different stakeholders coordinate and work together to achieve the stated aims? I know there are a number of library-led organisations (like COAR), but is not a more diverse forum (in terms of the different stakeholders) needed? How many members of COAR are also members of cOAlition S for instance?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Might it be that the different interests and priorities of these stakeholders are such that joint action is not possible, certainly in a way that would satisfy all the stakeholders? After all, funders got involved with open access because after 20+ years the other stakeholders had failed to work together effectively. However, in doing so, these funders appear (certainly in Europe) to be pushing the world in a direction that the authors of this report deprecate. What, practically, can the movement do to achieve the aspirations of the document beyond making a call to action or further declarations?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Richard Poynder <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 15:53, Kathleen Shearer <</span><a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org"><span lang=EN-US>scholcomm@lists.ala.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>(Apologies for the cross posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US>Today, my colleagues and I are issuing a “Call for Action!”</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>With the publication of this paper, </span><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/fostering-bibliodiversity-in-scholarly-communications-a-call-for-action/" target="_blank"><i><span lang=EN-US>Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action</span></i></a><span lang=EN-US>, we are calling on the community to make concerted efforts to develop strong, community-governed infrastructures that support diversity in scholarly communications (referred to as bibliodiversity).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Diversity is an essential characteristic of an optimal scholarly communications system. Diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms, and evaluation measures will allow the research communications to accommodate the different workflows, languages, publication outputs, and research topics that support the needs and epistemic pluralism of different research communities. In addition, diversity reduces the risk of vendor lock-in, which inevitably leads to monopoly, monoculture, and high prices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>We are living through unprecedented times, with a global pandemic sweeping the world, leading to illness, death, and unparalleled economic upheaval. Although our concerns about bibliodiversity have been growing for years, the current crisis has exposed the deficiencies in a system that is increasingly homogenous and prioritizes profits over the public good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Stories abound about the urgent need for access to the research literature, as illustrated, for example, by this message by Peter Murray-Rust </span><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2020-March/005395.html" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>posted</span></a><span lang=EN-US> to the GOAL mailing list on March 31, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;background:white'>“My colleague, a software developer, working for free on openVirus software, is spending most of his time working making masks in Cambridge Makespace to ship to Addenbrooke’s hospital. When he goes to the literature to find literature on masks, their efficacy and use and construction he finds paywall after paywall after paywall after paywall ….”</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>For those who were not in favour of open access before, this global crisis should settle the debate once and for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>We must move away from a pay-to-read world in which researchers, practitioners and the public cannot afford to access critical research materials, or have to wait for embargo periods to lift before they can develop life saving techniques, methods and vaccines. Access to the research is simply too important. Yet, pay-to-publish, the open access model being advanced by many in the commercial sector, is also inappropriate as it places unacceptable financial barriers on researchers’ abilities to publish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>It is time to reassess some of the basic assumptions related to scholarly communications, including competition, prestige, and the role of commercial entities. The same values that underlie our research and education systems should also guide research communications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>To that end, we are calling on researchers, policy makers, funders, service providers, universities and libraries from around the world to work together to address the issue of bibliodiversity in scholarly communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The problems we encounter have never been more complex and urgent, nor has the need for solutions been greater. There is a real danger that new budget constraints and an increasing proportion of funds directed towards large commercial entities could lead to greater homogeneity and monopolization, further hampering the free flow of research needed to address the critical challenges we face.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Read the </span><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/fostering-bibliodiversity-in-scholarly-communications-a-call-for-action/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>blog post here</span></a><span lang=EN-US> and </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3752923" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>full paper here</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Kathleen Shearer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>www.coar-repositories.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>