Open Access, Public Intellectualism, and Academic Reform

"Not only is open access critical to the current academy, but it could be critical to the future of the academy. It's important the academy's work be available to those outside of it. In the age of transparency, it should be fundamental that academic work is automatically open access and freely available to anyone. The question shouldn't be, why should we make academic work open access; it should be, why shouldn't we make academic work open access? ..."