ABSTRACT
For much too long the crisis in scholarly publishing has been viewed by senior public and university administrators as the “library’s budget problem,’ In large part that was our own doing. Year after year we made special budget requests based upon more than normal inflation in the publishing industry. Only when the national, state, and local economies could no longer support such unprecedented increases did we begin to examine the underlying causes of these unrelenting price increases and to look at systemic causes outside the library.
