[g-b-r]

Gather together and begin publishing your own journals (even just in the form of a website)?

If it's you who made the existing journals great, you probably can do it again?

[impendia]

This is a coordination problem.

There are some efforts in this direction; for example, the researchers who led the Elsevier boycott

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

started a free open-access journal

https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/about

in which I'm proud to have a paper accepted.

But it's difficult to dislodge the existing system quickly, even if everyone involved wants to.

[g-b-r]

That's one good news!

Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some kicbacks involved, at some universities

[da_chicken]

That's just kicking the can down the road.

[g-b-r]

In what way? I meant freely accessible journals, of course (making journals, or "journals", of their own, would probably cost much less than the subscriptions they're currently paying)