I think Stevan has misunderstood my previous point. I was trying to say that bundles (whatever their pros and cons for libraries) do replicate, for a subset of the literature which may or may not be representative of the whole, the effect on the user of 'barrier-free access'. And the effect appears to be that there is about as much usage from non-subscribed journals as from subscribed titles. This is not, of course, the same as saying that the library subscribes to half of the journals which are of use to its patrons; unless the library has got its selection policy very wrong, usage per journal will be much heavier in those subscribed to than in other titles.
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