We, Americans, believe so much in fair competition and market mechanism. Let the market work on its own. Scholars and academic decision-makers are not stupid; they know their potential levels of attainment and retention. For instance, those OA publications would not be considered at all for a Harvard professor. However, there might be many teaching-oriented schools that do not mind having their professors publish in those journals (rather than not publishing at all). Similar analogy is, why I am stranded at University of B…surely and logically because I am not offered a position at University of A.
My thrust is: let the market decide. Low quality products and services will die due to competitive process. Unless we want to become like those sub-par and poor countries where universities, accreditation institutions and everything are heavily regulated.
