"Any new ideas for fixing the broken publishing system must take into account the disciplinary prestige factor," writes Steven Bell. Because, to authors, "what matters most – more than the possibility of thousands of hits on Google – is knowing that the 200 people that matter the most in my discipline read my article in our most prestigious journal." It's an old argument - in order to replace the King, you must recreate the King, because otherwise the people will have nobody to bow down to. See also Jim Groom: "What I want to see is some real experimentation outside the order of academies and institutions. A networked approach to learning and sharing that is centered around empowerment of the learner through learning. This can't be impossible." And see also David T. Jones, "Change in education, failure to learn and the commodification of university."
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