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Repositories can do all the functions of journals except quality control, and we don’t want government doing that.

Social sciences often left out of discussions about data curation, open access, etc.

We could argue that taxpayers paid for the research in general, not necessarily each publication.

But the Public Access Policy requires the peer-reviewed manuscript, not the one after which the publishers add value. The America COMPETES model, for un-peer-reviewed grant proposals, is almost useless to the public. In health, you want the refereed results, not the grantee’s report to the agency.

If journals can’t survive, from an economic perspective, that’s not harm — it’s just a failure to adapt.

Journal growth trends with funding for researchers. As universities want to be more prestigious, they aim to publish more. Trying to have access to everything requires too much money — you have to prioritize.