The focus on costs as business expenses overlooks the primary problem with non-free journals: It limits the dissemination of knowledge - the primary reason for

The focus on costs as business expenses overlooks the primary problem with non-free journals: It limits the dissemination of knowledge - the primary reason for publishing - to the few who can pay. Currently, independent scholars or intellectual members of the public who want to learn something have very limited access to this knowledge. AFAIK, you need to go to a library to access it - you can't even join a library and get remote access to their computers. That means all the well-researched, expert knowledge in those journals is replaced with whatever is found on the Internet. How will the next brilliant patent clerk participate and make her/his contribution? (If anyone knows a way to access JSTOR without enrolling in a university or going on-site to a university library, I'd love to know.)