As I read in the Wiki, “Researchers have criticized Elsevier for its high profit margins and copyright practices. The company had a reported profit before tax of £2.295 billion with an adjusted operating margin of 33.1% in 2023. Much of the research that Elsevier publishes is publicly funded; its high costs have led to accusations of rent-seeking, boycotts against them, and the rise of alternate avenues for publication and access, such as preprint servers and shadow libraries.”
Are there other high-score but more ethical publishers? Is Springer Nature better in this sense? I mean the subscription publishing options, not a paid open-access.
I mean, if you are doing actual science, I assume you will want access to all the other science that has been done, so you will still want to read the science published in Elsevier journals. So no, there is no alternative.
I was asking rather about submission of an article. I see no problem in reading the Elsevier articles from scihub.