Re: How to sort this out, I’d like to hear from knowledgeable others.

My experience with this -- our college library got enthusiastic about open access 10 or so years ago and we had good discussions but the most productive among us continued to publish in the old way -- is not encouraging. I'm a little more encouraged about the prospects of a tenured professoriate, actually, than about those of an open-access scholarly community. But I may be ill-informed!
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If a group of respected academics in a clearly defined field such as classics were to start a breakaIway peer reviewing organisation, and arrange online publishing for the papers they approved, would they have enough clout to convince universities that their output deserved brownie points for writers who need a record of publication to maintain their posts? Could a physical journal of such papers, made available by a print-on-demand service (easy to set up these days) and sold at a reasonable price, raise enough  money to compensate those involved without the need to levy charges for reading the papers online? Or would vested interests and inertia doom such an attempt?

RH