That's not even the only alternative. There are lots, even if universities simply stopped publishing in journals entirely. 1. Academic promotions could be deci

That's not even the only alternative. There are lots, even if universities simply stopped publishing in journals entirely. 1. Academic promotions could be decided internally based on their own evaluation of the research quality, instead of by reference to external decisions. 2. Papers could be sold via the universities own website. 3. University departments could produce their own "journals" that consist only of their own papers and ask people who believe in the universities brand to subscribe to that. 4. Universities could instead patent everything they come up with and allocate promotions based on accrued patent revenue, with the papers being essentially readable adverts for the patent licensing programme, etc. There are lots of ways to incentivize good research that don't involve journals at all.