[Air-L] open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals

[Jimmy Wales]

Christian Nelson wrote:
> We're still talking about open-source journals that would utilize  
> some sort of reader rating system to make editorial decisions, right?  
> Why would powerful academics leave the current set of journals, over  
> which they have total editorial control, for journals over which they  
> would have considerably less control, considering that journal  
> article publication is the main source of academic capital for most  
> scholars? No one ever gives up power willingly.

Why should we assume that successful open access journals would involve 
any of that?  I see no reason to think that open access has anything at 
all do do with "reader rating systems".

--Jimbo