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Let’s call the current set of institutional scholars and researchers, “S”.

Let’s call the current set of journals and publishing houses, “J”.

So, what currently happens is:

  S generates research outputs, writes research papers.
  S gives its papers to J for FREE.
  J puts together journals and sell them back to S, for a PREMIUM price.
  
  S helps J review or even edit these journals for FREE
  S lets J decide what topics S should focus on
  S lets J decide what papers to recycle
  

So, in real life,

  if you let someone take your work product for free and sell them back to you, 
  if you have to pay someone to work for them, and 
         need to work for them to earn the previlege to pay them, 
  then, what is this?
  

There is a word for it. check here