"get rid of the academic journals that charge huge amounts of money for access to publicly funded research by selling prestige to desperate researchers (so they

"get rid of the academic journals that charge huge amounts of money for access to publicly funded research by selling prestige to desperate researchers (so they can get more funding)." Quite well said. I think we really need two things to make that happen. 1. provide cool alternative to private companies selling prestige; and 2. exert more pressure by people from outside on the academia administrators and researchers. The current academic system is rotten, but it is, unfortunately, quite stable.