Water (2008) put into notice the financial constraints face by the universities in promoting the open access publishing. In many fields funding at both the university and foundations or government agency level is much more fragmentary and partial; the idea that foundations and universities can or should mandate open access publishing there for run up de minimis limitations. It may be in the public interest to mandate open access, but it may equally be a failure of public trust if such a mandate is not balanced by consideration of a requirement for sustainability so that the content and the publishers endures if the academy is unwilling or unable to think carefully about possible downstream. Consequences of open access publishing and ways to steer clean of undesirable consequences than the mantra about journal publishing - that the academy gives away its products only to buy them back at exorbitant prices will surely return to haunt the academy in an even scarier garb than before, and prove to be even more financially debilitating.
Water, D. (2008 Winter). Open Access Publishing and the Emerging Infrastructure for 21st centrurey scholarship. The journal of Electronic Publishing. II (1).
Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.106
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