I&#x27;m ideologically primed to favor free access to information (especially if any tax money was involved which is true for pretty much all research) but I think a middle ground of moving scientific publishing to a nextflix&#x2F;itunes&#x2F;kindle model would solve a lot of issues. Access a paper -&gt; (micro) payment to the journal (who could in return set up another (micro) payment to the actual author).
The biggest issue is the pricing model (35$&#x2F;paper when a researcher typically needs to read 100+ papers per papers he&#x2F;she writes) and the lack of a single point of access.<p>Like iTunes for science. Go do it someone. I won&#x27;t envy you, I&#x27;ll expect you to fail but if you pull it off I&#x27;ll be forever grateful.