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Tuning in to hear the thoughts of @PrinSciAdvGoI on #scholcomm in India. Thread below. India has a huge role in shaping the future of English-language scientific publishing. Everyone working in #libraries #stmpublishing #openaccess should be paying attention to its priorities.
Prof Raghavan: Fundamentally in a situation where information is becoming the source of polarised power. Knowledge and power have always gone together, and access to information means access to power. Today, those with access to the analysis of data wield disproportionate power.
Much of what we see in scientific publishing today is a relic of the printing press. Those who could print could collate knowledge and make it available, at great effort. The net result was that the printed copy was expensive.
Just published: Call for tenders "Open Research Europe — The European Commission Open Research Publishing Platform". Contract notice: ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO… Procurement documents: etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-displa… Deadline: 18 May 2018 #OA #scholcomm #openaccess h/t @dagmarmichaela
"Tenderers are called to customize an existing publishing infrastructure solution [sic](...) to develop processes and policies to run the platform as a service, to engage in communication activities for the Platform and to run the service and publish articles in the Platform." 
1/ OK, this thread will be long-ish - showing bits and pieces from the tender specifications (full text here: etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-docume…). First, intended 'basic workflow of the platform': preprints can be posted to the platform also w/o intention to peer review & publish there.
