[otherme123]

You know what is even worse? A lot of what is paid come from public grants and not-for-profit grants. Reviewers are not paid. Editors are mostly other researchers. Authors are required to put the paper in ready-to-process.format. Thus public money funelled into journal pockets.

There is almost zero reasons why the governments or NIH-like institutions don't have their paper repository.

[dotancohen]

  > There is almost zero reasons why the governments or NIH-like institutions don't have their paper repository.

Prestige. Though I do agree that prestige is almost zero reason.