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Only some few of the learned journals are worth the money to a library
If the publisher is spending serious effort in writing summaries and abstracts, as one does in legal publishing, they’re worth something to the reader.
If not, the libraries and interested individuals could well band together and pay for just-in-time printing of the online journals, to allow them to circulate and be shelved/browsed in the traditional manner.
–dave
Full disclosure: I formerly worked in legal publishing.