content: Thankfully this is slowly starting to change. The internet has allowed journals to be shared freely - no longer are journal subscriptions a necessity. Journals need to cling to their source of revenue and this is the last pillar. Once a few fully accessible, and most importantly, respected online journals take off the decline of the traditional journal will occur.. These projects exist and will hopefully develop in the next decade. As you said, these are funded by governments and should be accessible for public consumption. A simple solution would be for governments to implement a simple law - if the research receives government grant money, the journal must be made open and accessible to the government database one year after initial release. This allows journals to continue their publishing business and the information to be released after a reasonable period of time. This is easy to distinguish as the status of each study in relation to funding is known as receiving government funding requires adherence to strict research laws (i.e. In Canada any funding the government is forced to follow TCPS2 guidelines). The one year waiting   7ff9  period could change, but the pace of science is progressing and a year seems adequate. There will be lobbying against this, but we need to fight for the right for information.