Abstract
Efforts to secure financial sustainability for non-profit and community-led initiatives via library membership programs are on the rise, but individual libraries might struggle to join these programs without changes to their budget structure and decision-making processes.
Highlights
Collection budgets and acquisition departments of European and North American academic libraries are shaped towards working with legacy publishers
That these traditional partners are transitioning towards OA publishing, the easiest path is to redirect money and staff to invest in what these publishers charge for production rather than for the finished product
We will contribute to a further monopolization of the market for academic publishing and we will end up “reanointing the commercial oligopolists”, whom we blame for the scourges of cost and inaccessibility which currently plague scholarly communication
Summary
Collection budgets and acquisition departments of European and North American academic libraries are shaped towards working with legacy publishers. Investigating these alternatives by tasking library staff to actively seek out alternative solutions for scholarly communication and by financing publishers, infrastructures, and initiatives that focus on developing these different approaches, comes at a cost.
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