As someone in academic biology, I just want to provide additional support for what roel_v is saying. All of his points are accurate from my personal observatio

As someone in academic biology, I just want to provide additional support for what roel_v is saying. All of his points are accurate from my personal observations of academia as well. To further the point, I've worked in both large (rich) and small (poor) universities. At the small universities where access is limited, you just bug the PIs that went to rich universities for grad/post-doc. They hop onto their alumni VPN and can easily get any paper for you. 90% of scientists do not know or care about open science. I would also state that there is serious stigma against open science. One of my PIs claimed that PLoS wasn't even peer-reviewed (which is false) and that anyone who submitted there was performing career suicide. This is, sadly, a pervasive viewpoint among many scientists. Especially older and more established PIs.