The Library invites you to a discussion of the crisis in scholarly communication.
Scholarly communication is in crisis.
Control has shifted to commercial publishers, who appear to value profits more than dissemination of scholarly research to the widest possible audience. Because they cannot keep up with commercial publisher price increases, libraries must cancel journals and cut back on acquisitions of all types. The impact on scholars, their students, and their colleagues is that each year they have access to less and less of the research that should be available to them. Join us in a discussion of the crisis in scholarly communication. Learn about alternatives to the present system.