What is the intended impact of BOAI on journals that do not offer open access to their contents?
Journals that do not wish to provide open access have nothing to fear from BOAI except competition. We do not endorse the piracy or expropriation of their intellectual property. We do not demand that they change their access policies and do not threaten them with boycotts or other sanctions if they do not change. We encourage them to offer open access, and will help find the money to defray the costs of the transition to open access for journals willing to make the change. We hope that journals not offering open access will at least cooperate with authors who want to self-archive their articles. We will also help to launch new open-access journals, which will compete with journals that do not offer open access. Our goal is not to put for-profit publishers out of business, but to provide open access to as much as possible of the peer-reviewed research literature. If publishers are willing to help this cause, we will welcome them. If they are unwilling, we will pursue our goal without th
