Where Open Access Has Failed To Reform Academic Publishing, Perhaps Antitrust Law Will Succeed

"The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justice has been subverted by clever and cynical moves from the academic publishing industry in order to retain their fabulous profit margins. As a result, the open access movement has failed to deliver cost-free access to academic papers, or to ease the process of sharing knowledge, at least on the scale that it initially aimed for. That makes a completely different approach to tackling the problems of academic publishing, using US antitrust laws, extremely interesting...."