Has the Revolution in Scholarly Communication Lived Up to Its Promise?

"A revolution that would overturn the existing economic model of publishing, expand authors’ legal rights and open access to everyone has yet to occur, or at minimum, is moving forward with fits and starts. Evidence for and against a transformation in the scholarly communication system has co-existed for many years, making it difficult to point out a road map to transformative reform. Rather than following a straightforward trajectory to a particular point, the period 2004 to present has seen significant milestones toward reforming the scholarly communication process, but these single events that showed the potential to cause a sudden, radical or complete reform in the entire system have failed to precipitate a complete transformation...."