Taking Advantage of the Great Tech Infrastructure Build-Out of the Early 2000s

I was thinking the other day that in all our diligent argumentation over open access (OA) and related matters, we may have neglected to notice the multiple infrastructure layers that have emerged to form a new basis of infrastructure for scholarly publishing. From the late 1990s until now, there have been significant changes in how scholarly publishing is accomplished. These sustaining technologies have been adopted without much argument or fanfare, and their significance might be underestimated.