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The sticking point in UC's split with Elsevier was UC's demand that all UC authors be permitted to publish their work open access. "We want the public and the world to have access to research... that is funded by the public in the first place." 
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-uc-split-publishing-giant-elsevier …pic.twitter.com/c1GnlJlgso
To be clear, Elsevier generally demands exclusive publishing rights to academic research *funded by the public,* which it then sells back to the university system in multimillion-dollar journal bundles. This is paywall-as-a-service. Thrilled to see UC call it.
fwiw, I'm not against for-profit journals; I'm against publicly funded research orgs granting *exclusive* publishing rights to for-profit journals. For all its "value adds," I wonder how much less Elsevier would have to charge if it weren't the only game in town
If the editorial layer adds so much value — if Elsevier is so much better at organizing solid peer review processes & separating outstanding work from questionable work — welp, that's a service it can provide with or without exclusive rights to the research. I'm all for it.
I'm not being totally flippant; I absolutely see a path forward for research curation as a profitable niche in academia. Competitive pressures could nudge it out of its static pre-web format while simultaneously encouraging an explosion of new ideas in pre-reg, peer review, etc.
Isn't it a bit curious that we just assume, in 2019, that the print periodical is a strong format for curating scientific research? Stop granting exclusive rights to a single aged distribution channel & I bet we'll see a profoundly more diverse & user-friendly ecosystem emerge
Imagine this platform being used not only by the obvious end-users (researchers, students, etc.) but also by a network of *other tools* attempting to optimize research accessibility/validation/analysis for every use casehttps://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/1104464614794747904 …
Imagine a universal API for public research at every stage of the lifecycle, for authors, for data sets, for grants + grant-makerpic.twitter.com/St2i313Qas
This is well within the bounds of our technical ability, and there's surely demand for it — but I don't see any way for this to happen while research orgs are making deals that make public research the defensible intellectual property of private companies
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