<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">My sense is that papering over the cracks will stop working very soon for many libraries, if it hasn’t already.</font></b> Most recently, the University of Konstanz and the Université de Montréal have terminated bundled serials contracts. Rather than doing so silently and shamefacedly, little more than a cancellation list buried deep in the library website to mark the event, they explained their action with press releases and showed their work. A few libraries of every size whose budgets haven’t yet hit the wall have likewise chosen to signal publicly in the last couple of years that trouble is near or already here: Harvard has, Cornell has, SUNY-Potsdam of course has, and there are doubtless more I don’t recall offhand.<div>
<br><a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/06/opinion/peer-to-peer-review/is-there-a-serials-crisis-yet-between-chicken-little-and-the-grasshopper-peer-to-peer-review/#_">http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/06/opinion/peer-to-peer-review/is-there-a-serials-crisis-yet-between-chicken-little-and-the-grasshopper-peer-to-peer-review/#_</a></div>
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