Public interest v. publisher interest
Stevan Harnad, Optimality, Inevitability, and Conflicts of Interest, Open Access Archivangelism, July 30, 2006.
Summary: There is undeniably a conflict of interest today between what is best for both the research community and the public that funds it, on the one hand, and what is best for the publishing community, on the other. Nor is there any doubt about how this conflict of interest can and will be resolved: Open Access. The only thing at issue is how long the optimal and inevitable can and will be delayed, and how to reach it as soon as possible.
