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It&#x27;s amazing to me that the big research universities haven&#x27;t banded together to make a competing open-access system of journals.<p>It would require no more work on the side of the academics -- they are already doing all the work for Elsevier -- and the administrative costs of hiring editors would almost certainly be equal to the fees they currently send to Elsevier.<p>The fact that they haven&#x27;t makes me think that, with the exception of independent universities such as MIT, Elsevier&#x27;s lobbyists are able to lean on the political people at the top of most large universities.