Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
The most relevant quote in the article:<p><pre><code>    > the research community uses historical journal reputation to
    > evaluate researchers, making it harder for new, better run
    > journals to enter the market.
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This problem would be solved tomorrow if those allocating public money
to science made funding contingent on the research being published in
open access journals.<p>Scientists can't have their cake and eat it too. Either they fund
their own research and publish in prestigious expensive journals that
cost the public money, or they take public money and make the research
available for all.<p>But it's not easy to migrate to that because scientist aren't just
using journals as a publication platform, but as a reputation platform
as a function of their exclusivity and reputation.