Just a quick reminder that the 5th Annual LyrOpen Fair<https://lyrasis.org/lyropen-fair/> starts today — everyone is welcome to attend, and all sessions are free.
Convened by Lyrasis and held this week and next, these five webinars will explore open scholarship from diverse stakeholder perspectives. Today's session<https://lyrasis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y0rncSVTTdmNtgvTchCcpw#/registration>, for example, explores sustainable approaches to open access book publishing through the lens of the Opening the Future initiative.
Thank you for being this direct — it's exactly the kind of honest pushback that makes these conversations worthwhile, and your skepticism is completely fair given the patterns you've seen.
Let me be straightforward with you: Yes, Publishing Gateway is a for-profit company. I won't pretend otherwise, and I won't make promises about future ownership structures that I can't guarantee. You've seen enough of these situations to know that such promises are often meaningless anyway.
