Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

This I mostly agree with, but there are lots of free search indexes already.

I'm trying to to understand what you understand and what you don't. Is there a thing that you can imagine seeing that would compel you to believe publishers aren't the ones standing in the way?

Totally! That they don’t pursue copyright ownership, don’t enforce the copyrights they own now, and encourage proliferation of results, data and records in the public domain.

Ok, that's helpful. So commercial publishers are leading the move to open access, they give access to copyrighted content after 6 months to 2 years ("green" OA), and not sure how you define encouraging, but there's lots there - preprints & data repositories, for example.

What you're seeing is a move from using subscriptions to pay for all the scholcomm stuff to a platform services model to pay for the same stuff, but also facilitate innovation. Progress!

By “give access,” do you mean the right to read, download, reformat, & redistribute?

Usually the right to reformat is excluded, but yes.

Gotta run for now, but keep firing questions at me.