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

[Christian Nelson]

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.

On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

>  So yes, I agree: luring big names is part of what has to be done.   
> I just don't find that particularly daunting.