> The authors pay Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish using their brand names. Traditional academic journals do not require payment from the author.

> The authors pay Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish using their brand names. Traditional academic journals do not require payment from the author. While author-pays journals are becoming more common, AFAIK all journals published by Elsevier still work the old way. Elsevier makes money off its journals through subscription fees.