Mikhail Gelfand: why scientific articles should be publicly available

The question of public availability of scientific articles has sprung much controversy and heated debates on all levels of scientific community. Professor Mikhail Gelfand has recently given a brief comment to Forbes on this problem. He says that he does not use the illegal project Sci-Hub and reads only the Open Access articles. He predicts that in the future most publications will be freely available to both scientists and public. The full text of the article in Forbes is available here.