[VaderLied]

Individuals can still purchase subscriptions if they feel there is value instead of relying on taxpayers for their bathroom reading material.

[rimunroe]

How would access to some of the largest journals in a field not be vital to people advising on policy decisions impacted by those fields?

[asplake]

I'm neither American nor of the political persuasion of its current government, but I'm not alone in seeing it odd that the outputs of research funded by my government and/or yours is paywalled so egregiously. I for one would be happy to see some disruption here.