Can we transform scholarly communication with open source and community‐owned infrastructure? - McGonagle‐O’Connell - 2019 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

Key points

• Scholarly publishing is constrained by a technological infrastructure that is rigid, cumbersome, and weighed down by interoperability challenges – frustrating efforts to streamline and innovate.
• Publishing is dominated by a few major players who control much of the scholarly record and its underlying infrastructure.
• Collaborative publishing efforts offer huge potential for reducing cost and innovating more flexible workflows.