Open Access: the salvation of European universities?

"Facing multibillion publishers a monopoly on the market of scientific publishing, open archives projects, new flagship collaboration between researchers, multiply on the old continent. If the first goal is to save money, this movement background in a recent global dynamics of open access to knowledge and offers new perspectives for research.  Elsevier, Springer Science, John Wiley & Sons ... these names remind you of anything? If you are a researcher, then this is quite normal. Yet these behemoths of scientific publishing raking every year billions of dollars in profit, with a net margin of around 40%.Unheard of. Even the famous apple company regularly cited as a model with 25% net profit margin does not make such a good ratio.Taking advantage of a scientific community in need of renewal, which its researchers judge solely on the number of articles published in their own journals, these multinationals have is a real goose that lays golden eggs ..."