Ideologically I feel like every tax funded researcher (i.e. the vast majority) has an obligation to make all his work publicly accessible. Change will happen o

Ideologically I feel like every tax funded researcher (i.e. the vast majority) has an obligation to make all his work publicly accessible. Change will happen once open access journals get A level status. If there's enough that are sufficiently peer reviewed a simple legislative fix (for state funded/supported education which is the case for most forms of education) would be to treat open access publications preferential when it comes to hireing new academic staff. As someone with the long term vision of massive changes in education towards e-learning I think the way to attack this is to actually couple OA initiatives with sites like coursera, edx etc. How deep are the Buffet/Gates pockets, maybe just buying up a bunch of content and freeing it might be the easiest path.