I’m a librarian, and think these are very exciting times for challenging the prevailing publishing paradigms discussed at the “Open Science 2.0″ panel. Perhaps libraries could publish and preserve academic work in-house, without buying it from third-parties that have vested interests in the current system.

Publishing, especially peer-reviewed publishing of complicated material, is very difficult to do well. So this would not be a trivial transformation. Nevertheless it is worth considering seriously.