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<p>Thank you Sam for this really nuanced view of open access, as
usual.</p>
<p>As an outsider (francophone from Quebec, working mainly in
francophone Africa, founder of an independant not for profit open
access press), let me have some fun by trying a sport metaphor to
express my view of the debate. Bear with my broken English.<br>
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<p>It seems to me that Glenn's project (and many open science
"projects") is like the NFL (National Football League) : for US
citizens and some lost Canadian male ones, it is the biggest
thing, gathering all the best players, the best games, the best
abilities and so on : high-level. But for much of the rest of the
world, especially women, it is not very interesting, rather
incomprehensible, brutal and ugly. (My son plays American
football, but will never read this!). For me, having quite a
reasonable academic career in my world without having ever
published in an Elsevier or Big for profit publisher journal (but
having been recently quoted in a Geoforum (Elsevier) paper
entitled "<span class="title-text">Open access publication:
Academic colonialism or knowledge philanthropy?"</span>), the
open access world that is frequently described and discussed in
discussion lists of OA experts/actors is a sort of NFL - where the
name "world champions" is totally meaningless unless the world is
reduced to the US. <span class="title-text"></span></p>
<p>The NHL (National Hockey league) is a bit more diverse because
it includes Canada and welcome some "strangers", players coming
from Europe, that far away continent where hockey is not at all
the most favourite sport (except for Russia maybe). For most of
the people (women) outside US and Canada, the NHL is still a very
male, brutal, exclusive, not so interesting world. In the OA
world, some efforts by outsiders raising unusual questions about
the epistemology of open access or web access, suggesting to
dismiss Impact factor or to "librarize" (nationalize in libraries)
all for profit journals, are sometimes heard, but are usually
quickly dismissed as being utopist or less important than
discussing APC or investments.</p>
<p>The FIFA (International Federation of soccer/football) is much
more diverse and meaningful to the whole world, even if the US
citizens ignore it and name it in a way different from the rest of
the world. Soccer/Football can be played barefoot or with
expensive gear, in small localities as well as in big cities, in
organized leagues as well as in community neighborhoods. Still,
every soccer player can play with another from another country,
because they recognize that it is the same sport and that they
love it. I believe that FIFA is close to the idea of
bibliodiversity that Kathleen is advocating. Still, there are a
lot of inequalities within the soccer world : still very male
(even if it changes a bit), still dominated by Europen teams that
recruit the best players from the Global South (soccer drain),
still linked to money, generating violence and chauvinism, etc.
Bibliodiversity won't be the end of fighting when so many
disparities persist between universities from the North and
universities from the Global South. But it could help creating
more solidarity and mutual interest and aid. Will you try to read
the first papers of our 15 emergent open access not for profit
francophone African journals?<br>
</p>
<p>The recent UNESCO definition of open science is very interesting
and much closer to the FIFA than to the NFL, even going further
than open access... The roadmap for the UNESCO recommendation of
2021 can be a valued tool for advocating a real bibliodiversity. <br>
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<p>Florence</p>
<p>Éditions science et bien commun / université Laval<br>
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Thanks for sharing this
report with the list. I may
need to read this again in
more detail, but one thing I
don’t quite understand is
the focus on ‘high-level
experts’. You write:<br>
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‘There has never been an
inclusive, global effort to
bring everyone together
first—broadly, at scale and
at a high, policy-making
level—to identify common
ground needs and interests,
then collectively brainstorm
options, and only then
design specific policies and
solutions that work within
this globally operational
and sustainable framework’<br>
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I’ve always felt that one of
the more exciting things
about open access has been
the influence of grassroots
and activist strands of
advocacy, or those that
specifically foreground
local and diverse contexts
instead of broad-scale,
top-down and policy-based
approaches. Are you able to
say a bit more about what
‘high-level’ means here and
how your approach would
preserve these contexts
without imposing your
common-ground solutions onto
them? <br>
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The reason I’m asking this
is because your report
mentions my work on openness
as a ‘boundary object’,
which is a term developed by
Star and Griesemer to
describe concepts that have
both a shared flexible
meaning and a nuanced local
meaning that allow the
possibility of cooperation
between local groups. I
argued that open access is
one such boundary object
because it means many things
to different people but is
broadly recognisable across
contexts. However, the
problem with introducing
boundary objects into the
policy sphere is that they
become regulated and
homogenised, simply because
it is difficult to preserve
local contexts in a global
setting. This kind of
homogenisation tends to
benefit those with more
power (in this case large
commercial publishers
operating at scale) at the
expense of the
bibliodiversity that
Kathleen is arguing in
favour of nurturing. <br>
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interested to hear more on
the 'high-level' focus of
your group and whether you
see it as antagonistic to
non-high-level approaches.
Put another way, are you not
simply looking for common
ground between the groups
who are already in charge of
scholarly communication
(policymakers, commercial
publishers, senior figures,
etc.) to the exclusion of
those operating at the
margins?</div>
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Sam<br>
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-- <br>
Dr. Samuel A. Moore<br>
Research Fellow<br>
Centre for Postdigital
Cultures<br>
Coventry University<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at
10:27 PM Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi David,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In reply to your statement, “that
people with fundamental disagreements can agree on
general principles does nothing to resolve those
disagreements,” I deeply disagree. To my knowledge and
experience---which, granted, appears to differ from
yours---agreeing on general principles is, in fact, a
prerequisite to actually resolving disagreements as
opposed to just papering over them. I would be happy
to debate this with you off-list. I don’t want to
exhaust the good will of our audience here (if we
haven’t already).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But to elaborate, from page 18 of
the paper (the long version): “….<span
style="color:black">common ground is a unique,
"expanded pie" state. It isn't a grand compromise
where we manage to divide a static pie into smaller,
less satisfying slices, but creating a larger pie
where new value is available throughout the system.
In this case, then, common ground doesn't mean
seeking a compromise between embargoes and immediate
release; or between APCs and subscriptions; or
between publish or perish culture in academia and
something a little kinder and gentler. It means
thinking beyond, focusing not on picking specific
solutions but on understanding how our interests
overlap lest we get weighted down by too many
solutions or too many solutions we don’t like. By
identifying the broad contours of common ground that
exist in this conversation we can build the
guardrails and mileposts for our collaborative
efforts and then allow the finer-grained details of
community-developed plans more flexibility and
guidance to evolve over time.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please
note that examples of common ground perspectives
from OSI’s five years of work are included on report
pages 19-26, and also in Annex 1 (pages 39-53).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Glenn</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Glenn
Hampson</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Executive
Director</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://sci.institute" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Science
Communication Institute (SCI)</span></a></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Program
Director<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://osiglobal.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Open
Scholarship Initiative (OSI)</span></a></span></b></p>
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>David Wojick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20, 2020 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thatcher, Sanford Gray <<a
href="mailto:sgt3@psu.edu" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">sgt3@psu.edu</a>>;
Kathleen Shearer <<a
href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering
Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A
Call for Action</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This all sounds good but I do not
see it working as an approach to conflict
resolution. That people with fundamental
disagreements can agree on general principles does
nothing to resolve those disagreements. For example,
librarians want lower costs but publishers do not
want reduced revenues.</p>
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David</p>
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On Apr 20, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>>
wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Most is annex material <span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI
Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span> But I’ll send
you the summary link when it’s available
(hopefully next week).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the interim, the Cliff Notes
version is that the entire scholarly communication
community, large and small, for-profit and
non-profit recognizes many of the same fundamental
interests and concerns about open, such as
lowering costs and improving global access; and
the importance of many of the same connected
issues in this space such as impact factors and
the culture of communication in academia. This
community also shares a deep, common commitment to
improving the future of research, and improving
the contribution of research to society.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If all this still isn’t enough
for you, read the paper (or skim it)---there’s a
lot more. The key isn’t to find and focus on
common ground on solutions right out of the gate
(and inevitably end up arguing with each other
about whose solution is best). It’s to recognize
our common interests and concerns first, and only
then start building out solutions and options,
together. We’ve been skipping a necessary step in
this process for far too long.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Glenn</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Glenn
Hampson</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Executive
Director</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://sci.institute" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Science
Communication Institute (SCI)</span></a></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Program
Director<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://osiglobal.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Open
Scholarship Initiative (OSI)</span></a></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> David Wojick
<<a href="mailto:dwojick@craigellachie.us"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">dwojick@craigellachie.us</a>>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20, 2020 12:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thatcher, Sanford Gray <<a
href="mailto:sgt3@psu.edu" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">sgt3@psu.edu</a>>;
Kathleen Shearer <<a
href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>>;
<<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">richard.poynder@btinternet.com</a>>
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">richard.poynder@btinternet.com</a>>;
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>>
<<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering
Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A
Call for Action</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Glenn,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is 107 pages! In the
interim, which may be long, here is a simple
example. There is a sizable school of thought
that says journals should not be published by
commercial (for profit) publishers. Then there
are the commercial publishers, who publish a
sizable fraction of the journals. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the common ground
between these two large groups?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David</p>
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On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:26 PM, Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>>
wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi David,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I encourage you to read the
paper and let me know what you think (on-list
or direct): <a
href="http://plan-a.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OSI-policy-perspective-2-final.pdf"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://plan-a.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OSI-policy-perspective-2-final.pdf</a>.
I apologize for the length of this---the
summary version hasn’t been published yet.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glenn</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Glenn
Hampson</span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Executive
Director</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://sci.institute"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Science Communication
Institute (SCI)</span></a></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Program
Director<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="http://osiglobal.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Open Scholarship
Initiative (OSI)</span></a></span></b></p>
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href="http://osiglobal.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><image004.jpg></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> David
Wojick <<a
href="mailto:dwojick@craigellachie.us"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">dwojick@craigellachie.us</a>>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20, 2020 10:19
AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thatcher, Sanford Gray <<a
href="mailto:sgt3@psu.edu"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">sgt3@psu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kathleen Shearer <<a
href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>>;
<a
href="mailto:richard.poynder@btinternet.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">richard.poynder@btinternet.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>;
Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci) <<a
href="mailto:goal@eprints.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">goal@eprints.org</a>>;
Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ghampson@nationalscience.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering
Bibliodiversity in Scholarly
Communications: A Call for Action</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I suspect there are lots
of limits to common ground. In fact the
hypothesis that there is significant common
ground strikes me as untested, much less
proven, especially if one includes the more
radical positions.<br>
<br>
David Wojick</p>
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On Apr 20, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Thatcher,
Sanford Gray <<a
href="mailto:sgt3@psu.edu" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">sgt3@psu.edu</a>>
wrote:</p>
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style="font-size:12pt;color:black">I
have two brief comments to add to this
thread.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">1)
On the question of translation, ir
strikes me that automatic translation,
however imperfect, could be
satisfactory for certain scholarly
purposes but not others. We don;t
always need an elegant translation to
get the gist of what is being said,
and that may suffice for certain
purposes, say, in background reading.
On the other hand, I have always
opposed the CC BY license as
inadequate it deprives the author of
control over quality in translation,
which is VERY important to scholars at
least in the HSS fields, if not in
all. Once a poor translation is done,
motivation (especially market-based)
declines for doing a better one.</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">2)
As for "common ground," of course
there is common ground to be found
amongst all types of publishers, but I
see a fundamental "divide" between
nonprofit and for-profit publishers in
that at least one potentially key
avenue toward open access, viz.,
endowment funding, is available to
nonprofits in a way it is not to
for-profit publishers. Both nonprofit
and for-profit publishers can operate
on the basis of having the market
mechanism be that by which they fund
their businesses, but only nonprofits
have these nonmarket-based
alternatives (which also include
university subsidies to presses) to
explore as well. That is a basic
difference that will determine what
the limits of "common ground" can be.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Sandy
Thatcher</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="color:black">From:</span></b><span
style="color:black"> <a
href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org"
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on behalf of Glenn Hampson <<a
href="mailto:ghampson@nationalscience.org"
target="_blank"
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20, 2020
10:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Kathleen Shearer' <<a
href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com"
target="_blank"
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: [SCHOLCOMM]
Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly
Communications: A Call for Action</span>
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<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">Hi
Kathleen, Richard, </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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 (<a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplan-a.world%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746486702&sdata=HqX4dQyCuH8rAVD32rhxqwt7FR9edEJf6s449J3X550%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://plan-a.world</a>).
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. </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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. </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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). </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">I
expect our efforts will cross paths in
the years ahead, Kathleen. We would be
honored to collaborate and contribute
to your work.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">Best
regards to you both,</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">Glenn</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Glenn Hampson</span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Executive
Director</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsci.institute%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746486702&sdata=pmfSWmYaxAckqRIlpcTNQwDxCZaXo%2BOHnCs8PiDFma0%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Science
Communication Institute (SCI)</span></a></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Program
Director<br>
</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:9pt"><a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosiglobal.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746496698&sdata=EzewH25bZr4En9p%2BrvhVI2upp4dC%2FxlIpXUQ0Gp%2FJ5o%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Open
Scholarship Initiative (OSI)</span></a></span></b></p>
<p
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style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><image004.jpg></span></a></p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
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<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><b>From:</b>
<a
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen
Shearer (via scholcomm Mailing
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 20,
2020 6:12 AM<br>
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href="mailto:richard.poynder@btinternet.com"
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<a
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM]
Fostering Bibliodiversity in
Scholarly Communications: A Call
for Action</p>
</div>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">Hello Richard,</span></p>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">Yes, indeed, you are
right, the coordinated actions
required for bibliodiversity are
similar to the efforts needed to
deal with the covid19 pandemic. </span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">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></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<blockquote
style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1.<span
style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>Are translation
technologies adequate to the
task envisaged for them in
the document?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
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></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<blockquote
style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">3.<span
style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>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?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">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></p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue"><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 <a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ouvrirlascience.fr%2Fthe-committee-for-open-science%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746496698&sdata=7Vgrf%2Bqq846jvR7%2Fk120ex0ydlB05WTOI5FhwfeAhTk%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Committee
for Open Science</span></a>
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></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">All the best, </span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue">Kathleen</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt">Kathleen
Shearer</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt">Executive
Director</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt">Confederation
of Open Access Repositories
(COAR)</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt"><a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coar-repositories.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746506694&sdata=9tj%2BvFPB2zBluwBvR%2F%2BjMY7ZZ39uTMPdL%2ByHRbj9HqY%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.coar-repositories.org</a></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt"> </p>
<blockquote
style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">On
Apr 16, 2020, at 1:31 AM,
Richard Poynder <<a
href="mailto:richard.poynder@gmail.com"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">richard.poynder@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"> </p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div
style="margin-left:0.5in">
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">“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.”</p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<div
style="margin-left:0.5in">
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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. </p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<div
style="margin-left:0.5in">
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">I
have three questions:</p>
</div>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1.<span
style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>Are translation
technologies adequate to
the task envisaged for
them in the document? </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">2.<span
style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>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?</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">3.<span
style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>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?</p>
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class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xgmail-msolistparagraph"
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Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at
15:53, Kathleen Shearer
<<a
href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>>
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for the cross
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<p
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all,</p>
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<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal"><b>Today,
my colleagues
and I are
issuing a “Call
for Action!”</b></p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">With
the publication of
this paper, <a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coar-repositories.org%2Fnews-updates%2Ffostering-bibliodiversity-in-scholarly-communications-a-call-for-action%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746506694&sdata=GmJtOEAK5Alb%2BxZxA%2F56XPAXwEb1M1aGpNIqjuN4I2Q%3D&reserved=0"
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moz-do-not-send="true"><i>Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly
Communications:
A Call for
Action</i></a>,
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).</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">Stories
abound about the
urgent need for
access to the
research
literature, as
illustrated, for
example, by this
message by Peter
Murray-Rust <a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk%2Fpipermail%2Fgoal%2F2020-March%2F005395.html&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746516685&sdata=32VY%2BP9lU992c78uw7yKrXq4rCqbErCOiXmL0sPVYXs%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">posted</a> to the GOAL mailing list on March 31,
2020</p>
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<p
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style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">“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></p>
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<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">For
those who were not
in favour of open
access before,
this global crisis
should settle the
debate once and
for all.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">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.</p>
<p
class="gmail-m_-7673134991599365508xmsonormal">Read
the <a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coar-repositories.org%2Fnews-updates%2Ffostering-bibliodiversity-in-scholarly-communications-a-call-for-action%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746516685&sdata=NI0KB7aMiy7FD724mBGTXt7BNOkZs3lRoQJqgs2SJT4%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">blog post here</a> and <a
href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5281%2Fzenodo.3752923&data=02%7C01%7Csgt3%40psu.edu%7Cd37dad6aaa044f4fa0b108d7e53c5dc6%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637229919746526679&sdata=Xi%2BI4xj9DZVaH2oX9G7T6buQtWrwNR4E25HuavhFXzQ%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">full paper here</a></p>
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Shearer</p>
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Director</p>
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of Open Access
Repositories
(COAR)</p>
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