Open-Up Public Science!

After too many such episodes in recent history, peer reviewing is in the line of fire. It will have to become fully transparent, no longer anonymous, possibly even open, or else it will disappear and the question will be: how then will scholarly publication quality be controlled ?

This is a clear explanation of some basic flaws in the current failure to achieve open access nowadays.
Subscription prices are outrageous. "subscription prices are based on historical print models not evaluated de novo in the digital era. Replicating print formats for journals, rather than individual article and data access, is also an historical anomaly".
"When funded by an institution and/or the taxpayer an academic author gives away his or her research to a publisher, usually renouncing personal copyright in the process. The publisher then sells back the content to universities through their libraries in the subscription process".
"Researchers are largely unaware of, or indifferent to, the costs of the scholarly communication process and are generally unsympathetic to the fact that most people outside of the university subscription firewalls are unable to access scholarly information and content".
"It will take disruptions to the complex ecology of scholarly communication to build a green and fairer publishing land".

Belgium lags among the "coldest" (yellow) countries when it comes to the number of Open Access journals...