<div dir="ltr">Let’s make sure we understand what has happened here. <b><font color="#ff0000">A professional society wants to get its journals into libraries, but finds the gates are closed.</font></b> So the society ends up making a deal with a large publisher, which serves as the gatekeeper to the library budget.<div><br><a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/09/30/libraries-and-consortia-in-the-context-of-a-publishers-strategy/">http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/09/30/libraries-and-consortia-in-the-context-of-a-publishers-strategy/</a></div></div>