&quot;Anyone that has gone through research and academia knows that you often need to browse many papers to even find the ones worth reading.&quot;<p>Exactly. And without the monthly subscription plan (something I wasn&#x27;t even aware of until this comment thread), the going rate seems to be around $30 per paper--rent-seeking to the point of highway robbery. One thing that these publishing companies could have done long ago was allow some sort of &quot;free preview&quot; of the full text or &quot;full refund within 10 min&quot; option to help deal with this problem. I have no idea how this would be done technically to prevent &quot;pirating&quot; but, as it is, the pay-per-paper system is completely disconnected from the way researchers browse papers.