Open Access Publishing

corporate enclosure of knowledge
do we want commercialize access to knowledge?

open information exchange, minimal concern over intellectual property control, no requirements for individuals to monetize knowledge production

To sum up, the advent of the Internet should have greatly reduced the monetary value that can be extracted from academic content. Publishers who have depended on extracting this value face a crisis. The crisis is being delayed only by Universities and research funders. They have the power in their hands to insist on alternative models for access to the results of research, such as open access and self-archiving, but have in most cases been reluctant to do so. My suspicion is that the decision-makers in this area also tend to be on editorial boards of major journals, and thus generously treated by the big publishers.