the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost Holy newspeak. These are companies, they don't

the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost Holy newspeak. These are companies, they don't make contributions out of the good of their heart, _they extract value for their shareholders_, who are neither the taxpayers nor the scientists. The ridiculous gross margins and nonexistent competition suggests they do so in what can only be called rent-seeking.