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[...] pit presses as well as other stakeholders in open publishing against one another in the pursuit of financial profit.

Both initiatives have been set up from the get-go as non-profits to ensure that they cannot be bought out by commercial players. More importantly, our governance models have been modelled in such a way that the communities we serve have an active say in the direction of our initiatives. For example, the Open Book Collective's governance is led by its Board of Stewards, which brings together its three main constituent groups of libraries, infrastructure providers, and publishers (many of them Born OA / #DiamondOA). For Thoth, we've recently published our first self-assessment against POSI, the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures, which I'm sharing below.

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