> Those all seem to be sponsored. Even if that is true I would rather see public money sponsoring real open access journals than spend paying author fees and s

> Those all seem to be sponsored. Even if that is true I would rather see public money sponsoring real open access journals than spend paying author fees and subscription to closed access and hybrid journals. > As long as their expenses are >60% of revenue, What I truly question is the nature of these expenses. From my point of view inside academia in the field of computer science, and knowing a lot of people in other fields of academia, the actual work put by publishers in the final product that is a published scientific paper is close to zero (except for those fields where there is layout work because they do not use readymade LaTeX documentclasses).