This answers many problems my researcher friends have faced. Now, how can journals fund the peer-review process and still have research freely available?
That money generally doesn't come directly from the university, but from the US or some other state's government. Why the researchers or university are then the legal owners of that publicly funded research, and have the rights to transfer that ownership to private enterprises like Elsevier, is beyond me.Now, how can journals fund the peer-review process and still have research freely available?
Considering that neither the authors nor the reviewers are making money from the peer-review publication process, any paywalling whatsoever amounts to nothing more than profiteering. It is simply a way for private companies to extort vast sums from publicly-funded institutions, just as we see with private contractors who take government tenders in infrastructure, healthcare etc. As she rightly says: As someone embedded in the academic "publish-or-perish" working environment, I welcome this, though I am skeptical of how long it will last. Download while you can, I guess.[The academic publication model] is very different from the music or movie industry, where creators receive money from each copy sold