<div dir="ltr">These recent events have triggered the suspicion that maybe the entire concept of scholarly publishers is antiquated, irrespective of how open, innovative or non-profit the publisher is. In addition to the inevitable conflicts of interest, none of the publishers are seriously considering all three of our intellectual outputs: code, data and texts. They are only after our text summaries, i.e., our papers. <b><font color="#ff0000">The result being, in an age of ever sinking costs of making digital objects public, that we overpay publishers by so much, that no money is left for our institutional infrastructure serving our three output modalities.</font></b><div>
<br><a href="http://bjoern.brembs.net/2014/04/should-we-stop-supporting-open-access-publishers/">http://bjoern.brembs.net/2014/04/should-we-stop-supporting-open-access-publishers/</a></div></div>