Great points. Part of funding is that there is a need or gap in the research that your research addresses. A platform like Steemit has no mechanisms in place to weed old stuff from new stuff, and in order for people to even review the literature, they need access to the major expensive databases.
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Some of those database are free and hopefully more will be free in the future. To me, the real question is what can be understood by anyone of the field from those databases.