NY Librarians : Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?

Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption? - US News and World Report

As Harvard balks at subscription cost and others take a page from its book, open access publishers get a fresh look

By Simon Owens July 23, 2012

Opponents say this puts publishers at a financial disadvantage. "The argument that the taxpayer pays for it, and therefore the taxpayer should have it for free, is weak in my view," said Martin Frank, the executive director of the American Physiological Society. " … You and everyone else can identify the fact that there's lots of stuff in our society that has been developed through taxpayer dollars that we still end up paying for." Read more