OPEN ACCESS Battles to Democratize Academic Publishing.

This article advocates of media democratization are battling academic publishers to open up their publication. It describes most academics are still constricted by the 20th-century system. In order to gain credibility, academics must earn their stripes by getting published in a small, exclusive group of scholarly journals, which are still produced on paper. It is ironic that the Web itself was invented by scientists to share information more easily and yet academics are blocking the easy sharing and access of information.