Boycotting vanity

A battle has been going on between the University of California and Nature Publishing Group. Superficially it is over the price of subscriptions but at a deeper level it looks like more and more scientists are fed up with old-style publishers who get the publications and review services of scientists for free and then charge hefty sums of money to their universities for access. I hope that this sentiment persists until publishers change their business model. And if vanity journals like Nature, Science and Cell disappear in the process, I won’t cry.