academia is skwd in many ways

Some reading for food for thought: Renewal model in academic knowledge systems 
The cited papers in the paper are also worth following. 

 This is why things like sci-hub is worth keeping: keep academic knowledge open (at least monetarily: no paywall), one-layered (a bit anarchist you might say), and keeping things identifiable.

I am not saying that academic publishing contributes nothing to the academic knowledge system itself, but everyone can actually learn to establish their academic publishing-indexing service themselves for their academic materials. There shall be no thing such as publish or perish, it should be publish for greater good.