You mean, if researchers would voluntarily send their papers to black holes that won't get read until someone who is duplicating their work does a literature search.
Journal reputation is a rather effective filter on paper quality, and the open access journal business model has a very uphill battle to fight, since it looks very close to the scumbag, predatory "you pay, we publish, no questions asked" [1] model of garbage.
[1] Really scumbag: "You just literally copy-pasted someone else's entire research paper and slapped your name on it? We don't care."
> You mean, if researchers would voluntarily send their papers to black holes that won't get read until someone who is duplicating their work does a literature search.
This argument is quite common. I actually don't agree with it. Right now there are many second-tier and third-tier outlets that lock up research that nobody reads. Nobody would be denied tenure or refused promotion for not publishing in those journals. By publishing your lesser research in open access journals, there's a chance someone might read it. You could build an open-access infrastructure there.
Journal reputation is a rather effective filter on paper quality, and the open access journal business model has a very uphill battle to fight, since it looks very close to the scumbag, predatory "you pay, we publish, no questions asked" [1] model of garbage.
[1] Really scumbag: "You just literally copy-pasted someone else's entire research paper and slapped your name on it? We don't care."