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Former Academic System's Librarian:

The BIGGEST Scam running over a decade now. The digital subscriptions are for back ordered journals. These journals sat in boxes behind the current issue and you had to look up an index to find what you needed.

So instead of making 100% of their money on current issues they have now made it where they make 90% of their money on old content that was making them nothing but they get to charge 10 times more and obscure journals get a larger paid audience.

Research issues are mostly paid with tax payer money or non-profits and the profits go to delivery companies. This reminds me of Apple Apps and Google Play's 30% profits.

LOCKED OUT are the paying public. I no longer am in academic work anymore (Gladly) and I no longer can look up research. Really sucked when my son had cancer.