Well, academic societies like this are the problem.
When high journal fees are talked about an often over looked fact is that scientists chose this model. Scientific journals were originally run as non-profits by their members.
I guess it was considered too much hassle, and they decided to move production too an external company... that’s when all this rent seeking behavior began.
My opinion really, is that scientists themselves should move back to the scientific society runs the journal model. It doesn’t make much work to publish a bunch of PDFs in an archive anymore.
When high journal fees are talked about an often over looked fact is that scientists chose this model. Scientific journals were originally run as non-profits by their members.
I guess it was considered too much hassle, and they decided to move production too an external company... that’s when all this rent seeking behavior began.
My opinion really, is that scientists themselves should move back to the scientific society runs the journal model. It doesn’t make much work to publish a bunch of PDFs in an archive anymore.