… allow staff time to do this kind of thing but not any more, outside of Oxbridge/Ivy and equivalents.

… member leaves/ retires or if there is a rebrand. And if you run a journal for free you still have to have editors and copy editors and proofreaders and if the publisher isn’t paying them and you don’t have paying subscribers someone else has to. Universities used to…

… several years of stats to prove continuity as well, and then if your numbers drop off you have to re-apply to get re-indexed. And there is always the matter of hosting fees, because journals that are on university websites have a habit of disappearing if the relevant staff…