Everybody knows that efficient, cost-effective and high-quality scholarly publishing is possible. The Global South has been demonstrating this for years, no decades, as have various journals and fields. A nice summary of how the European Geosciences Union shows the world how it's done has just been published as a preprint:

https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-419/

There really is no reason to remain caught in the trap of the corporate publishers one minute longer.

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