Wybo - thanks for these links. I totally agree that breaking the feedback loop you mentioned, that binds academics to the current journal system, is key. I thin

Wybo - thanks for these links. I totally agree that breaking the feedback loop you mentioned, that binds academics to the current journal system, is key. I think the central things that needs to happen are: building an alternative discovery system (already happening with the web), and building an alternative credit system (happening with citation counts, and other metrics, but is lagging behind the growth in alternative discovery systems, and needs to be accelerated).