Those services are provided by editors and reviewers to Elsevier for free. Reviewers and Editors are _not_ paid by the publishers.
That is why there was hope for flipping journals.
The experience of Gowers and co with Discrete Analysis shows that high quality selective journals outside of publishers are straightforward, and that we are overpaying publishers by a factor of ~100.
That is why there was hope for flipping journals.
The experience of Gowers and co with Discrete Analysis shows that high quality selective journals outside of publishers are straightforward, and that we are overpaying publishers by a factor of ~100.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Analysis