This has been said before, by many people including myself. The current system of academic publishing is simply a racket: academics put in all the work of doing the research and writing the papers; they receive no fee from the publishers, and sometimes even have to pay page charges for the privilege of seeing their work in a journal; then the journal sells the product back to academia at an extortionately high price. As a business model - obtain the product for free and then sell it back to the supplier at an inflated price - this can’t fail, but as a means of disseminating scientific discoveries it is terrible. All research funded by the public should be openly available. In the digital age it is only the rapacious vested interests (i.e. companies like Elsevier) who want to maintain the status quo. It’s a disgraceful situation.