ANTHROPOLOGICAL TROMPE L'OEILS » Care for Open Access? Write a letter!

"The pressure to have journals move to Open Access keeps mounting. However, despite proclamations to the contrary, the truth is that the for-profit journal system won’t collapse unless we build something to replace it. By 'something' I don’t mean endorse boycott campaigns against commercial publishers or setting up our own OA journals. As laudable as these efforts are they hardly address the complex system of subscription payments that libraries must negotiate on a daily basis. We need therefore something a little bit more audacious. We need to build an ecology of scholarly communications."