Our colleagues at the Knowledge Exchange (a collaboration among research and higher education agencies and funders from a number of European nations) have just published a very helpful survey of alternative scholarly publishing platforms in an attempt to better understand and map this rapidly evolving landscape. An overview of Knowledge Exchange's work in this area is at

https://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/alternative-publishing-platforms


and the report proper is at

https://knowledge-exchange.pubpub.org/pub/d9h2tp1x/release/1

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI