[jsprogrammer]

>What I would really like to see is a big institution / university take a stand and build something like Scihub to provide free and unlimited access to all of their own papers, even those that are stuck behind a paywall for "historic" reasons.

The University of California has already done this.*

Unfortunately their policy does not extend to papers created before their policy was enacted, despite what they had originally claimed.*

* http://escholarship.org/ * http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/groundbreaking...