...means that we all have a role to play
There are concrete actions all information professionals can take to help enact change and move our community of practice toward a more open and sustainable future. The role of DS professionals in particular involves fulfilling our shared responsibilities as stewards of the academic record, asserting greater control over the rights to our work, taking an interest in how our scholarship is disseminated (and how we can broaden its impact), and pushing ourselves to question the status quo imposed by commercial actors and traditional perceptions of librarians. By embracing and acting on these principles, we perform a valuable service to the academy and contribute to the collective change that will eventually lead our colleagues and collaborators to adopt more open research and teaching practices.