These days, scientific publishers are bundling everything together into one package, commonly known as the "Big Deal". Institutions pay a single fee for access

These days, scientific publishers are bundling everything together into one package, commonly known as the "Big Deal". Institutions pay a single fee for access to hundreds or thousands of journals. Here's a paper that explores the idea and its impacts - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/Wooders/APET/Pet2004/Papers/Exclusion%20or%20efficient%20pricing.pdf http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/Wooders/APET/Pet2004/...