Abstract
The dream of free and easy scientific and scholarly publishing on the Internet antedates the introduction of the World Wide Web. The last ten years have seen that dream dampened but not extinguished by the growth of the online for-profit journal, but multiple voices continue to speak for new models less tied to high prices and restricted access. This paper reviews the main models now in play, to identify their characteristic features, their strengths and their weaknesses. It reviews the criteria that will determine success and failure and concludes that management of costs and assurance of academic quality are the two critical factors. As a result of these factors, an altered, high-quality system of scholarly communications does not show promise of being truly inexpensive.
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