Yeah, budgets are, in part, motivating the push for open access journals. But I don't think university-wide budgets are the most relevant ones to consider. If

Yeah, budgets are, in part, motivating the push for open access journals. But I don't think university-wide budgets are the most relevant ones to consider. If you look more closely at university _library_ budgets, you'll usually see that journal/e-journal/database subscriptions have been eating up bigger and bigger chunks of the pie. The ever-increasing price of a subscription to ScienceDirect.com is directly taking away money from buying monographs (books), maintaining archives and special collections, and keeping university libraries open late at night for students to study.