ABSTRACT
In dealing with the “serials crisis” over the years, librarians have often called upon faculty authors and editors in other disciplines to be more “responsible” in their publishing behaviors by, for example, not working with journals that routinely engage in sizable increases in subscription prices. The issuance of Declaring Independence: A Guide to Creating Community Controlled Science Journals by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) in 2001 provided Chaffin with a framework for comparison of journals in library and information science with those in other disciplines more commonly cited as culprits in producing the “serials crisis.” Comparisons of three years of data on annual subscription prices in journals, copyright policies, and use of alternate publishing models for library and information science, physics, and sociology revealed no significant differences in journals by 312disciplinary fields. The finding that librarians and information scientists behaved no better than those in field commonly cited for behaving “irresponsibly” prompted both the title of this workshop–inspired by Walt Kelley’s Pogo comic strip–and much stimulating discussion within it. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com>]
