UC faculty to Elsevier: Restart negotiations, or else

I don&#x27;t understand why those journals are still a thing. It seems that almost all universities in the world agree that Elsevier and similar journals are predatory.<p>Why can they not all agree to all switch journals at once to something managed by committee, similar to what is done in the open source world.<p>Is the status-quo that difficult to break? In this specific case why are all those biologist not starting a new journal, pushing other people in biology to join them and boycott Elsevier?

This would be solved if just a few universities released a statement along these lines:<p>* We will not teach, employ, cite, publish or peer review for people published, employed by, or reviewing for the Cell journal after January 1st 2020.<p>By making the process of being published in the journal affect their careers, I can bet that very few researchers will publish there. At the same time, employees will leave, and reviewers will leave.

My question is why &#x2F;any&#x2F; UC employees are still working for Elsevier, and why are they submitting to those journals.<p>Cus are tax payer funded, and Elsevier makes its money by taking exclusive right to publish that research and then selling that at 100% profit.

just use sci-hub