Please read my comment above. In my own field, none of our respected journals are produced by Elsevier (or a similar for-profit publisher). The non-profit learn

Please read my comment above. In my own field, none of our respected journals are produced by Elsevier (or a similar for-profit publisher). The non-profit learned societies that do publish our journals provide the PDFs free of charge, and for the paper copies they charge libraries only the cost of production – which also makes it possible for even individual scholars to often buy their own bound hardcopies.