Editors' note: On rent extraction in academic publishing and its alternatives

In this editorial we introduce new members of our team and the contents issue. addition discuss open access developments journal, namely license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common that best suits their needs or requirements funders. This change in licenses makes journal also compliant with Plan S programme, several large European research funders have signed, order promote publishing. We support such initiatives, but note they are designed mainly push commercial publishers publish publicly funded access. While is welcome program, for-profit charge exorbitant charges for access, usually paid by researchers' institutions. these form rent extraction, produces little added value, as rely on free labor researchers fill journals' pages. More so, due public ends up paying again it first place. argue both institutional independent non-profit publishing socially more just sustainable model.