Boy do I agree with what you have pointed to as problems with the open access publishing. However, there are several of the traditional publications (e.g. Science and Nature) which have had to retract papers lately. They made headlines, and so the established journals are suffering degradation of their reputations as well as the open access publications.
Where are the solutions to the problem?
One problem I constantly face, as a part-time community college biology instructor, is that I, and my students, cannot access many of the periodicals that appear in internet searches for academic sources. They just pop-up as paid access. Students will not pay for access to those articles, and who can blame them considering the prices? I find it discouraging when students are restricted to scientific sources in the campus library and database, and some of the most popular journals are not available.
Perhaps the traditional journals should recognize the threat to their foundation. People tend to lump similar things together. So tarnished periodicals hurt the reputations of both open access and more scholarly publications. It’s time for the established journals and their database providers to consider the competition and devise ways to relax avenues of access to their journals, either through pricing or rules that will allow students and faculty
