Right now we're getting increasing FUD from the sides of Elsevier & Co against emerging open content journals. I don't think there's a turning of the tide, though, as early adopters have already embraced alternative channels of publication (physicists and math people foremost in arXiv), and it's only a matter of time before more conservative branches of science (medical, chemistry and biology people: that's you) are to follow. We might be getting the publishing monopolists to try grasping for DRM for paper copyright. I'm wondering why they haven't started watermarking their .pdfs yet, shough a crawler looking for phrases or computing document hashes would do just as nicely. Either way, the librarians are attempting to revolt using whatever little leverage they have. Fact is, the budgets are shrinking, and the shelves are emptying, while the content owners have established a de facto pay per view. ----- Forwarded message from Sam Joseph <sam@neurogrid.com> -----