That is a different argument that I will leave to colleagues. 
Personally, I am against paying for reviewers and I do not believe the 
majority of journals, whatever their financial underpinning, are paying 
for reviewers. But I stand to be corrected if needed on this point.

Jean-Claude

On 2024-02-25 03:49, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>    Jean-Claude Guédon writes
>
>> if funding agencies and libraries (where the money largely resides)
>> looked at the situation lucidly, they would finance diamond journals
>> rather than pay APCs.
>    well only if financing diamond journals is cheaper than paying APCs.
>
>    And there is the problem with the diamond journal. It seems to be based
>    on the idea that reviewers will not be paid. I can't imagine this model
>    being sustainable in the world of AI.
>
>

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