"One game changer would be governments mandating that publicly financed research be made publicly available. Every year the United States government provides ov

"One game changer would be governments mandating that publicly financed research be made publicly available. Every year the United States government provides over $60 billion in public grants for scientific research. In 2008, Congress mandated (over furious opposition from private publishers) that all research funded through the National Institute of Health, which accounts for 50% of government funding of science, be made publicly available within a year. Extending this requirement to all other research financed by the government would go a long way for OA publishing. This is true of similar efforts by the British and Canadian governments, which are in the midst of such steps." This is the solution. As taxpayers we say the research must be open. If you research based on our grant money, it must be open. If you are a public school, it must be open. If you are on public land, it must be open. If you want non-profit status, it must be open. If you want to it be closed, then you must be a self-funded for-profit institution. (Sometimes we call these things businesses)