[jbmorgado]

Clearly you - and many people commenting here - have no idea how the business model works and keep making these comments of: "don't mess with the free market."

Explained in a very simple way:

- Researchers do the heavy work, carrying out the research and writing up the articles: they don't get a cent from publishers (sometimes they even have to pay to publish).

- Reviewers, since of the most knowledgeable researchers in the area, take their time and knowledge to check what the researchers did: they also don't get a cent from publishers.

- Publishers, get all the work already done and charge money - stupid amounts of money like 30eur per article - to let other researchers see the works.

Researchers have nothing to lose by cutting the publisher. We are not wasting any money - on the contrary - for demanding free access.

Seriously, people should stop commenting themes they simply don't have a clue about.