no doubt, but the question is at what cost and for what reason. Nature editors are at best an arbiter of significance, a job that they often delegate to volunta

no doubt, but the question is at what cost and for what reason. Nature editors are at best an arbiter of significance, a job that they often delegate to voluntary external referees anyway. Nature is not a speciaalized journal. Like Science, they offer prestige but bundling all the sciences in one journal does not make them useful for regular reading. It's a self-selecting process, and scientists who are open-science-minded should retarget this self-selection process to one of the good open access publishers. Why should it be Nature that gets the spotlight here and not eLife, an open publisher that is truly innovative.