<div dir="ltr">It all seems to boil down to a problem of externalities. To the funding agency, publication costs are an externality. For libraries, open access isn’t cost-effective until they can ditch the expensive subscriptions. For established researchers, the costs of for-profit journal subscriptions are an externality. Early-career researchers are pressured by the hiring/tenure system to publish in the established, for-profit journals. <b><font color="#ff0000">And finally, the commercial publishers have a huge interest in making sure their lucrative business remains intact, and will act to make the barrier to open access [seem] as high and painful as possible.</font></b><div><br><a href="https://inquisitiverockhopper.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/paying-the-bills-with-open-access/">https://inquisitiverockhopper.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/paying-the-bills-with-open-access/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">​Also see: <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition</a>​</font></b></div><br></div></div>