Obviously you write your own paper. The point is the journals profit from your work, yet they expect you to do everything for free. Then they charge your univer

Obviously you write your own paper. The point is the journals profit from your work, yet they expect you to do everything for free. Then they charge your university's library a fortune so you can access your own paper. If someone wants to reuse a figure from your paper, which you made yourself, and represents data from publicly funded research on patients that donated their time and body for the betterment of society, the journal wants to charge $500. I've realised that scientists will put up with almost anything. You have to be that way, otherwise you won't last. But when Elsevier makes billions of dollars in profit, and the person that reviews the papers for them lives in a box subsisting on instant noodles with no job security, you have to ask some questions. We don't actually need Elsevier. If they disappeared tomorrow science would march on largely unperturbed. Elsevier needs the scientists, and bless them, they have found a way to put us to work for free and sell us the product at the same time.