There's good arguements for and against a complete conversion to open access research. Ruining all the free fun of open access are charlatans from around the world creating open access journals from nothing and picking up free money and prestige. I'd like to abring up this website:
http://scholarlyoa.com/
It's run by a librarian in Colorado, and he has a set of criteria to determine whether a given open access journal qualifies as a "predatory" journal. Sometimes you see stuff like this gem:
I can't find the link, but I once read a story where they published a paper titled, "Enter paper title". That's how reputable some of these outfits are.
It's run by a librarian in Colorado, and he has a set of criteria to determine whether a given open access journal qualifies as a "predatory" journal. Sometimes you see stuff like this gem:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/20/bogus-journal-accepts-prof...
I can't find the link, but I once read a story where they published a paper titled, "Enter paper title". That's how reputable some of these outfits are.
Open access won't be perfect.