Seduced by Open Access capitalism? When the cure is worse than the disease

Publishing our research in scientific, peer reviewed journals is a core task for people engaged in academia. It is the activity that distinguishes universities from other higher education institutions where teaching is the primary mission. Accordingly, in an era characterized by the publish-or-perish paradigm, debating the conditions under which we produce, distribute, and evaluate the quality of one of our core outcomes is of utmost importance (Wagner, 2016).