Dear Neil and colleagues,
This is such an important question and one it's great to be discussing. I would start from the premise that it's essential that systems are designed collectively and in cooperation regionally and globally.
There are many good examples of OA systems already being designed but in the development of new systems it is essential that they are underpinned by community rather than commercial principles. These principles will include equity, especially financial and transparency of processes. A further important principle is that of bibliodiversity - that is support for a multitude of publishing models.
Best wishes
Ginny
Adjunct Prof Virginia Barbour
Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
Co-Chair DORA
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HIFA profile: Prof Virginia Barbour is the Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and until recently was Director of Open Access Australasia. She is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and was previously co-lead of the Office for Scholarly Communication at QUT. She trained in the UK in medicine at Cambridge University and University College and Middlesex Hospital medical schools, specialising in haematology. She went on to do a DPhil at Oxford University and post-doctoral research in the US on globin gene regulation. She joined The Lancet in 1999, leaving in 2004 to be one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine. She has been involved in many international open access, innovative scholarly communication and publication and research integrity initiatives. She was involved in the final drafting of the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation in 2021. She was previously Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). She is currently Co-Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), a Plan S Ambassador and a member of the NHMRC-MRFF Public Health and Health Systems Committee. She was an editorial advisor to medRxiv in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. ginny.barbour AT qut.edu.au