Migration is the Hard Part

In scholarly communications, when we talk about “vendor lock-in”, what we actually mean is the difficulty (or seeming impossibility) of moving from one platform to another: “migrations.” This can be technical. Platforms may not provide data export in a standardized format or there may be no tooling to complete the migration automatically. Lock-in can also be social, though. If the terms of the platform take coercive IP ownership of the data put into the platform, then it can also become impossible to move from one space to another. Read more on the Educopia blog.