> If a customer is unable or unwilling to pay the prevailing rate, then no access will be granted. Sure, but access can still be obtained. For free. So they ca

> If a customer is unable or unwilling to pay the prevailing rate, then no access will be granted. Sure, but access can still be obtained. For free. So they can sod off. Edit: Elsevier and the like are predatory scum. They bought top academic journals, and have increased prices dramatically in recent decades. They're bleeding out the industry, as they ride it down to irrelevance. Just as some have done with the newspaper industry.