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Part of the challenge is the reputation issue. Academics want to publish where there is prestige, which means there has to be a perception of the venue as good.

Part of the challenge is the reputation issue. Academics want to publish where there is prestige, which means there has to be a perception of the venue as good. This typically either comes from reasonable gatekeeping and high-quality peers (e.g. arXiv) or pushing metrics (e.g. Nature Publishing Group journals). Generating an attractive journal is non-trivial and few people with the appropriate knowledge and expertise take the plunge would do so without some guarantee of profit.

Vinnl 5y ago
> Academics want to publish where there is prestige Important to note that this is not some innate "want"; their careers depend on it. It's a means to an ends, the ends being being able to keep practicing science. (Of course prestige-by-proxy will play a role as well, but it's not what's keeping the system in place.)