While I believe that publishers could create a cost effective business model in which they re-coop their investment, what this legislation does is allow them to

While I believe that publishers could create a cost effective business model in which they re-coop their investment, what this legislation does is allow them to sever any responsibility they have to the public in the name of profit and destroy any attempt by those that fund their industry to exert some level of oversight on behalf of the tax payer. They are attempting to destroy a reasonable compromise that they have 12 months to profit on articles, but the NIH imposes a limit so that they can't put the papers behind a paywall Ad infinitum. And under the current rules they still seem to be doing fairly well: http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/economics-of-open-source-publishing/ http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/economics-of-open-sour...