@brembs
Returning publishing to public hands would indeed reduce costs, increase access and provide quality rather than profit incentives.
Scholarly publishing should never have left the hands of public institutions and scholarly societies. It is a bitter irony that private conglomerates such as Elsevier or Springer-Nature are called science publishing houses, since they do their best to slow down making science available to the public when it threatens their profit.
#openaccess #OpenScience