RIT
Stephen Jacobs is the Director of Open@RIT, the university's Open Programs Office. http://www.rit.edu/research/open. He is also a Professor in the Department of Interactive Games and Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Scholar-in-Residence at the The Strong National Museum of Play.
Authored Comments
Academic publishing is a closed market, and getting close to becoming a monopoly. The sad thing is that, in this instance, academia has done this by choice (at least to a certain extent.) Academic institutions often limit those publications acceptable for tenure or promotion to specific publishers or societies. While its understandable that they want to ensure quality the method and selections generally accepted/mandated are outmoded.
Universities need to vote with their feet and work together to create "appropriate" open journals that will buck the rapacious practices of the venal academic presses and the academic/professional associations that have become more concerned with raising money off of their membership than serving them
Undergraduate admissions is currently an unopenable black box to college faculty, with the exception of programs that require portfolio review :-)