How can the open community put in place a sustainable infrastructure that helps to support Open Access to scholarship and retain some ownership of the research ecosystem?
The humanities should refrain from implementing a bad solution to a problem that they can avoid. Rather than spending time, energy and budget on transformative agreements with commercial publishers, they should set an example by making sure that alternatives flourish.
Scholar-led forms of open access can help influence the future of all forms of publishing, through its focus on non-commercial, experimental and collaborative practices. It represents new practices that other publishers could adopt.
The advent of open access to scholarly work online offers all teachers a great opportunity to re-think course content: the time has come to start thinking about course libraries instead of course textbooks.
What are our options to reduce the gap between established practices of scholarly communication and actual, evolving research practices?