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If charges that traditional publishing slows research are true, what responsibility do research institutions have to encourage or provide alternative publishing methods? Is this another area of disruption where institutions could possible take something back?

 A group called the Public Knowledge Project says its free online publishing software has allowed more than 5,000 new academic journals to be published. And there are lots of groups and projects like this one. In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Schmidt writes:

In a world where subscriptions to some medical journals can cost more than $10,000 a year, and many colleges in developing countries cannot afford more than a handful of scholarly publications, publishing enabled by this kind of tool is plugging many academics into research and discourse as never before.

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Open-access academic publishing has its limitations and drawbacks. It can be blocked by Internet filters. Its low cost makes the publication of inferior and unreliable journals much easier. And, in rendering scholarship freely available to anyone who can go online, it increases the risk that research in fields such as medicine will fall into the hands of people who might misuse it.