title: Libraries and the future of scholarly communication.
abstract: Changes in the structure of commercial scholarly publishing have led to spiraling subscription prices. This has resulted in a "serials crisis" that has eroded library budgets and threatened the system of scientific communication. Open access represents one possible solution, and librarians are working to help make it a reality.
authors.affiliation: NELINET, Inc., Southborough, MA 01772, USA. sperr@nelinet.net
authors.forename: Edwin V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Sperr
mesh_terms: D033181:Information Dissemination; D007990:Libraries / Q000191:economics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000191:economics; D012106:Research