[periheli0n]

Publishing is not the problem since we have the internet.

The problem is the botched science career system, how performance of academics/researchers is evaluated, how anybody beneath the tenured academic is exploited.

Publishing is just a decoy from this much larger problem.

[cblconfederate]

By publishing i meant editing, which is the only bit missing. How hard is it for major research associations to create publicly funded editorial boards to coordinate the (already free) authorship and reviewing

[periheli0n]

They are doing this, and they then team up with for-profit publishers to create a journal. Except for the "publicly funded" bit. I am not aware of public funds that would be available for editorial boards created by science organisations.