The way I see it, publications like Elsevier and similar should change their business models to be "curators" of public papers. All scientific papers should be

The way I see it, publications like Elsevier and similar should change their business models to be "curators" of public papers. All scientific papers should be submitted to arXiv or a similar public facing service, so that they are available for everyone. Then, Elsevier, Springer, SAGE , et al. should spend their money making ToC / abstract lists of the best of the best papers in the different subjects. That´s the main value of these editorials, they should super specialize in that and leave the distribution/editing to others (they kind of already do, they just want to have control). I may not want to pay ANY money once I am looking for a specific article that I know it exists. But I will pay good money for a "push" type of listing/abstract and maybe analysis of the best articles in certain subjects (its kind of what Feedly does but without any analysis/editorial but just dumb grouping).