the nature and results of government-funded research in a manner that ultimately harms society when the investment in publication dries up due to lack of ability to recover their costs.

Misleading. Author's copyright is often irrelevant cause it is typically signed over to the publisher. But, yes publisher's investments are harmed because they can no longer continue earning a profit after 12 months. Yet, they can still charge for access to the article at their own website. They are merely required to deposit a copy of the research work in a public repository, like PubMedCentral.

The quality of the publication lies in the content of the article not the processing, editing, and distribution. I do not include peer review because it is done for free by other researchers. The qualitywas ranking day at the close. Since the methodology of the reconstitution is well known, portfolio managers and hedge funds can do their own ranking based on the market cap at the close on Thursday. This allows them to speculate on which companies will be added and dropped before the Russell lists are actually published. Many have already calculated their own list and stocks were bought and sold on Friday in anticipation of the official ranking.

Russell will release the preliminary list of official changes on June 9th and update it again on June 16th. The actual rebalance will be at the close on Friday June 23rd. More than 15 billion shares traded on the June 24th rebalance last year.

Historically, the rebalance has weighed on the Russell indexes around