[Merrill]

This is good, more because it will make searching for information easier than because it will avoid copyright. Searching through journal articles to find information about a given topic is very hard, even at a university with more or less universal library access to the online literature.

Authoring papers of uneven detail and quality and then publishing them in whatever prestigious journal that will have them is a terrible way to document the progress of science.

Instead, new results should be added to an open science information base, fully linked to all previous results that bear upon the new results, either in support or contradiction. This is what some of the bioinformatic data bases attempt to achieve by scanning articles, but it would be better to omit the article step.