Why SciHub and other pirates are beating Green and Gold Open Access and what we can do about it.

"In this opinion piece, I first examine the evidence to show that Green and Gold Open Access are still far from making all scholarly journal articles and books open and that their failure has allowed pirate sites like SciHub to emerge. I argue that the failure of Green and Gold is down to a preference for stakeholders not to change compounded by the scale of the change needed. As a solution, I propose looking at the low-cost airlines and their success in unbundling their product."