From quantity to quality in open access: (and what about) the OA publishers' role?

We suggest to broaden and deepen the open access agenda by including several open access characteristics: more document types, retrospectivity, immediacy, open licenses, open metadata, open peer review, alternative platforms and diamond open access. To facilitate discussion, a framework is proposed that allows specifying these actions by the a) aspects of open access they address (what is made open access, how/when/where it is made open access, and copyright and rights retention), b) the actors that play a role (government, research institutions, funders), and c) the various levels at which these actions can be taken: state as goal, set as policy, legalize and promote, recognize and reward, finance, support with infrastructure. A template is provided to ease the use of the framework. As important actors publishers could help this agenda in several ways