4 May 2015
Here is the scenario: a society is considering a publishing services deal with Elsevier, Wiley, whomever. The society, having heard from the librarians at their institutions that the people who work for commercial publishers are Certifiably Bad Guys, is fearful that the large publishers will try to take over editorial control. Of course, the last thing a publisher like this wants to do is to muck around with editorial, as that is where the costs and headaches are.