I choose my words carefully. Please read them carefully. 1. My argument was never about the quality of open-access journals. Given the choice between a closed

I choose my words carefully. Please read them carefully. 1. My argument was never about the quality of open-access journals. Given the choice between a closed journal and a "lesser" open-access journal, most (but not all) authors would still try to publish in the closed one. There are highly regarded open access journals. But they are comparatively few. 2. The publishers already retain the rights of hundreds of years of published papers. They will not give that away to some (governmental or otherwise) science-preservation organisation. So the only way to "safe" these results is to keep the publishers alive. I would like the world to be different. And I would have loved to see aaron swartz "liberating" more paper archives. But that is a different story.