The products of academic, scholarly, scientific work (scientific articles, conference proceedings, research reports, etc) should be freely accessible to anyone, full-text, without any paid subscription. Knowledge should be accessible to anyone who wants to be informed or who wants to do more research. Also, the access to major scholar databases (such as Medline, EBSCO, OVID, PubMed) should be free of charge to anyone. The purpose of scientific research is to push forward the boundaries of knowledge and to inspire new research, not to make money out of it. The costs of maintaining these databases should be supported by the government.