Exactly. The only thing holding academics back is themselves. The current state of academic publishing is ridiculous. I recently submitted something that I ha

Exactly. The only thing holding academics back is themselves. The current state of academic publishing is ridiculous. I recently submitted something that I had to perform full copy-editing and formatting for. I know this is standard practice in engineering, but that's what publishers used to get paid for. In the end I'll have done the research, the writing, the editing and the formatting but of course the end product will in all likelihood be behind a paywall (this is sort of my own stupidity for rushing to get something published under the advice of a prof). There's no reason individual academic communities can't decide that they should establish there own reputable and open access journals.