[danielweber]

I've heard a number of times of people starting "open access" peer-reviewed journals for various fields. The persistence of journals that demand permanent exclusive rights means either those fields are still waiting for some enterprising person to do the heavy work to create the new journal (and manage its reputation), or that the old-fashioned journals are still providing some value that the new guys can't replicate.

Even Nature, one of the most awesome-est journals in the world, demands certain restrictions, like not publishing in another journal. They don't want to do all the work of vetting the article only to find out that it's also in Joe's Fishing And Particle Physics Papers.