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Universities are not a monolith, they are composed of many independent individuals. It is difficult to convince young researchers (PhD students, Post-Docs, Assistant professors) to "gamble" their future by publishing in new journals. It requires some push from the top, e.g. NSF making it mandatory to publish results from their grants in open access journals.

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Isn't it a reasonable request though to demand of university researchers funded by public dollars to be required to publish freely to the public since the public payed for it? Also they can double publish, it could be more of a "all papers are published here for public archival purposes but you can still submit to the journals you want." sort of thing.

The status quo is absolutely unnaceptable.

So it's basically one big game of prisoner's dilemma. :)

Just like nearly all parts of human society.

And it's somewhat disheartening to see that even academics (who should be in a position to see what's going on) frequently can't come together to cooperate and be better off.

My experience with academia is that it's a kindergarden. Everybody has silly personal 20+ year vendettas going on. I'm not at all surprised that academics are unable to co-operate.

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