[jorgemf]

Publish in a Congress is like $1000 (fee+trip), journals is less, access to the papers is millions for the universities.

They don't review the papers for you, they review for the Congress or journal, so they can decide which papers are worth to publish because otherwise they don't know.

Web hosting for universities would is nothing. So that is no an excuse to charge you for accessing the papers. Notice that the researches cannot have their papers in their web site because once they publish the papers the publisher has the rights.

Some things are changing but it is still so broken.