To quote the Big Lebowski, "Donny, you're out of your element." Publishers like Elsevier and Taylor & Francis pay nothing to acquire research papers, or for th

To quote the Big Lebowski, "Donny, you're out of your element." Publishers like Elsevier and Taylor & Francis pay nothing to acquire research papers, or for the volunteer peer reviews and edits. These companies have 30% profit margins. They are basically flipping a product back to the people who created it and need it, with literally almost no value add. They claim to be curators of content, but at the point we're at with the internet that role can be distributed. Our tax dollars also paid for a lot of the research locked up behind these paywalls. I'm sure you knew your comment about Alexandra Elbakayan being a "petty thief" was going to be contentious. We went through this with Aaron Swartz already. Try looking at the depths of her position before you start supporting a position that drove a young man to suicide. Edited for rhetorical stylings