[rurban]

Great, because this leads to less references to Elsevier papers, which will cause their importance to decline. Papers and academics "worth" are measured by the number of references. If the papers are not free to access for academics, their importance declines.

I had the same trouble with the ANSI, ISO and Lisp papers behind expensive paywalls and just chose to ignore those. In the end the free versions won and the greedy elitists lost.