<i>&quot;walled garden of academia&quot;</i><p>The walled garden of academia is not so fruitful as outsiders are led to think it is.<p>We struggle year after year to pay salaries and still have money to buy the equipment and material we need for the projects, we don&#x27;t have that much left to spend on buying access articles that <i>we</i> and our peers wrote and that <i>we</i> and our peers reviewed, all for free while some publisher makes millions on it.