Science Magazine May 7, 2020
Despite uncertainty about the long-term sustainability of OA models, many publishers who had been reluctant to abandon the subscription business model are showing openness to OA The healthy functioning of the academic community, including fair terms and conditions from commercial partners, requires that the global marketplace for data analytics and knowledge infrastructure be kept open to real competition. The dominance of a limited number of social networks, shopping services, and search engines shows us how internet platforms based on data and analytics can tend toward monopoly. In the research information space, contracts are being negotiated, research societies are being wooed, research assessment metrics are being proposed, and building blocks for establishing discipline portals are being assembled. The time for the academic community to act in coordination is now…read more.