It's time for major universities and/or research budget granting organizations to join forces and negotiate with these publishing groups to pull down prices and allow for open access.<p>In this day and age, organizing a new respected online journal is not too hard a task if top researchers in a field agree to work together. An interesting case study is the formation of The Journal of Machine Learning Research, which has become a top journal in computer science and quickly outranked its closed-access competitor, which was the top journal in the field of machine learning.<p>DARPA, NIH, and the like would be able to force this change to happen very quickly and increase the efficiency of the whole system. I still wonder why they haven't done that so far.<p>Imagine how much the world would be better if almost all new advances in medical & bio sciences, computer science, and other fields are available to everyone without unnecessary fees.<p>More details here:
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