pubmed is literally built for academic scraping. It even has a command line interface to access it. If publishers were worried about scraping they'd target that

pubmed is literally built for academic scraping. It even has a command line interface to access it. If publishers were worried about scraping they'd target that, but they don't. In fact when papers go on pubmed after a year they are rehosted by pubmed central and made freely available to anyone in the world.