> I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system...professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether This might

> I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system...professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether This might work in fields where there is more collaboration than competition, such as most of physics, but it won't work in the biomedical sciences. People want and need to publish in high impact, well-established journals. That's just the reality for now.