Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access

New submitter microcars writes "Harvard recently sent a memo to faculty saying, 'We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive. This situation is exacerbated by efforts of certain publishers (called "providers") to acquire, bundle, and increase the pricing on journals.' The memo goes on to describe the situation in more detail and suggests options to faculty and students for the future that includes submitting articles to open-access journals. If Harvard paves the way with this, how long until other academic bodies follow suit and cut off companies such as Elsevier?"

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What they need to do....

[apcullen]

They need to get away from peer reviewed journals entirely and switch to a slashdot-style moderation system.

Then papers will be acknowledged or disregarded solely based on their abstracts, with no one actually reading TFA, as they should be.