And, to take this a step farther, note that one of the most powerful forces contesting the bad influence of for-profit journals has been the research establishm

And, to take this a step farther, note that one of the most powerful forces contesting the bad influence of for-profit journals has been the research establishment itself. For instance, most of the board of Kluwer's journal Machine Learning resigned to make an open journal (JMLR, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Res...). And NIH now requires free distribution of articles produced under NIH grants, after an embargo period (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ http://publicaccess.nih.gov/)