"The commercial-STM-ghetto"? Even the incendiary Richard Smith would not, I hope, be so thoughtless as to compare STM publishers with the Judengasse. Equating STM publishers and the brutal confinement of Jews over the centuries leading to the Nazi era is, to put it mildly, grossly offensive. In any case, it will be very interesting to see whether your proposed growth of non-STM OA publishing will be sustained. Right now, "spasmodic" is an accurate term to describe much of the OA STM publishing world. That might be perfectly adequate--many of the journals in the DOAJ are of regional or local interest, and there may be no need for regular publication. If the emphasis as been on STM, it is because that has been the focus of public policy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, OA has been sold on Capitol Hill as a kind of alchemy which can somehow overcome the disastrously anemic state of NIH funding (for which, thanks to Mr. Bush's and Mr. Blair's very costly little adventure, no solution is in sight.) Peter Banks pbanks@bankspub.com