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Nowick and Jenda summarize library responses to the crisis in scholarly publishing costs and cite what they deem most useful approaches. They point how unsustainable costs limit scientists’ access to each other’s work.

Library and scholar educational efforts, such as informing scholars about copyright alternatives and principles outlined in, for example, SPARC’s Create Change, are highly touted. Nevertheless, the authors call for changes in the tenure and promotion system and a general change in librarian and scholar attitudes towards the publishing system from passive roles to active ones.