Lewis’s A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure maps the contemporary ecosystem of digital scholarly communication by identifying the projects, tools, organisations, business models, and collective-action problems that structure research production, dissemination, discovery, assessment, and preservation. The report treats scholarly communication not simply as publishing, but as an extended infrastructure that includes researcher tools, repositories, data services, journal and monograph platforms, discovery systems, metrics, preservation networks, and general services. Lewis distinguishes between commercial consolidation—where large providers seek end-to-end control over research workflows—and community-controlled open infrastructures, whose sustainability depends on governance, shared investment, interoperability, and long-term institutional commitment. The text is both descriptive and strategic: it catalogues 206 projects while also showing how libraries, universities, funders, and scholarly communities face a choice between outsourcing core research systems to commercial actors or cultivating open, nonprofit alternatives. A central concern is the fragility of open projects, which often depend on collective funding but suffer from coordination problems, uneven participation, and insufficient business planning. The report therefore frames openness not as a technical condition alone, but as a political and economic question of control, sustainability, and public interest. Its value lies in offering a cartography of the scholarly communication landscape at a moment when digital tools increasingly determine who can produce, access, evaluate, and preserve knowledge.
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