Something to keep an eye on. "Pubfair is a conceptual model for a modular, distributed open source publishing framework, which builds on the content contained in the network of repositories to enable the dissemination and quality-control of a range of research outputs including publications, data, and more." This is a link to version 2 (I covered version 1 last September) of the white paper (19 page PDF) proposing the initiative. As Kathleen Shearer writes in an email, "With decentralization, comes tremendous power. It takes us beyond an environment with many silos, in which every organization maintains its own separate system; to a global, interoperable architecture for scholarly communication."
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