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I hope this is just the beginning. What would make this easier is a free platform for article submission and refereeing. That usually takes away 90% of the menial work of inviting referees, storing reviews, managing revisions, etc. Some non-free options such as Editorial Manager and Elsevier's own system are slow and awkward.

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PKP makes Open Journal Systems, which is GPL licensed.

A flexible review process is part of the goal of the project, and the developers are responsive.

https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

This has been going on for decades but it doesn't seem to touch JSTOR and company much at all in the long run. AKA Read that in this article.

They are thinking that this might be different but I guarantee you there are plenty of other University Professors that would love to have the title of Chief Editor to make them look good to their school's administration and ease their research load.

Well, even with infinitely many greedy would-be EiC of a paid-access journal it just takes one open-access journal in the same area with some well-known editor to change things.

The problem is not that at least one such paid-access journal exists, it is that it takes time for any journal to earn reputation. Once that happens, you probably get a lower teaching/research load as an EiC of an open-access journal as well.

Work flow is also the issue. As a researcher many just pop into their one database MAYBE two and see what's in their walled garden.

I would work on getting people to use Open Journal search engines but then they were disappointed in the inconsistent quality of journals.

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