The other reason is of course Scihub. You pretty much can't do research without access to Elsevier's journal, so before Scihub, university libraries just didn't have a choice. Now they do.
Of course, none of them are ever going to say in a million years "Yeah our researchers don't mind so much now that they can get any paper illegally. Extortion over.", but it doesn't take much reading between the lines.
Of course, none of them are ever going to say in a million years "Yeah our researchers don't mind so much now that they can get any paper illegally. Extortion over.", but it doesn't take much reading between the lines.