This is why it's a lopsided to blame the publishers. Look at the incentives: Whether publishers give away their papers openly can make or break their business.

This is why it's a lopsided to blame the publishers. Look at the incentives: Whether publishers give away their papers openly can make or break their business. Where researchers publish in open or closed journals can make or break their careers. Which journals libraries subscribe to can make or break their .. librarian's careers? Hopefully this link in the chain gets broken by Sci-Hub. As an analogy, people who pay protection money or bribes are still part of the corruption and the mafia or corrupt politicians couldn't function without their support.