Academics already have to keep up with the literature in their field.  It is an important part of being a researcher.  You don&#x27;t want to spend your time on something someone has already done, and you want to cite prior work.<p>In practice, paper selection is done in a bottom-up fashion already.  An individual lab usually decides whether a paper is worth publishing.  A minor conference decides which of the papers submitted to it are worth featuring.  Bigger conferences look at the results of the minor ones.  And so on.  There is not a guy at Elsevier whose job it is to read the entire internet.  Like the rest of their business, it&#x27;s parasitic off the publicly funded university research system.