How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs

"Björn Brembs, Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Regensburg and OA advocate, argues the current journal publishing model perpetuates false research quality indicators and gives publishers disproportionate control over journals and consequently uninhibited price gouging liberties. He believes journal-based impact indicators should be abandoned and journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research. In the interview below Brembs details how bidding could lower costs of access to academic research as well as his thoughts on the future of OA."