How Do We Address the Continuing Problem of Inadequate and Deceptive Publishing Practices?

For 20 years, scholarly publishing has been responding to what some term "the digital revolution." Promising an end to scarcity and delays, the technocrats - and I count myself as among these to a point - believed all the benefits of abundance and speed would only help science advance. Rapid publication practices were established, online-only journals and journal sections were pioneered, and online manuscript submission and editing became commonplace. In addition, movements like open access (OA) came into being.