That’s a total of journal titles only. Now, try running a search on something you are interested - anything’ll do. If you can’t think of one offhand, you could try…‘mitochondrial function’. Take the list you get back That’s very broad, so the list will be a big one. So take - eh, 20 or so off the top), and start clicking around to see how many of those full articles you can actually open. Then , consider what your position would be, should you really need to know all that stuff and so need to read all those articles. Maybe, you’re an indie researcher, or maybe just a bright patient with a problem you need to know more about - doesn’t matter. Some journals will sell you a single article, but others would require you to pay hundreds or thousands for a subscription. What happens to you when the one thing you need to know is something you aren’t allowed to see, even if you paid for it to be a known thing? Is that ok? Or, no?
