No it won't because universities have an intrinsic motivation to publish, it is their life blood.
As a researcher at a university you usually have an _obligation_ to publish at least x articles per year.
In the best case, if 200m gets reduced to 0, under this scheme the universities would be able to publish 100_000 articles per year for the same price.
Ofcourse the universities will still require a whole bunch of subscriptions, but if the world would follow suit, this would be very awesome and good for science in general.
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No it won't because universities have an intrinsic motivation to publish, it is their life blood.
As a researcher at a university you usually have an _obligation_ to publish at least x articles per year.
In the best case, if 200m gets reduced to 0, under this scheme the universities would be able to publish 100_000 articles per year for the same price.
Ofcourse the universities will still require a whole bunch of subscriptions, but if the world would follow suit, this would be very awesome and good for science in general.