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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by chrismonsanto on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:45PM (#11638729)
My experience in publishing (in CS) is that the publisher does not offer assistance in typesetting. Additionally reviewers are not paid for their effort, and are not affiliated with the publisher--they do it out of a sense of duty / professional advancement.

The journals offer something of value because they provide high-quality taxpayer-funded research. The publisher is nothing more than a middleman, who should be cut out of the equation.

Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by merraksh on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:16PM (#11640435)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, what you say is similar for applied math. Since a couple of years ago some publishers are asking the LaTeX source and the figures to avoid their own typesetting (save for the journal's LaTeX style).

Journals do publish a lot of work by academicians, many of them funded, in the US, by NSF grants (taxpayer money).

Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by randyrand on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:48PM (#11639165)
Not all of them are taxpayer funded. That's a blatent lie.