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O pen access to scholarly information is a hot button issue that quickly triggers heated dis cussion-especially if the topic arises in a mixed group of librarians and publishers.Sometimes the discussion ends up generating useful ideas and prac tical solutions to real-world problems; too often, it leads to nothing more than facile phrasemaking or spluttering accusation.Open access has become an increasingly im portant and potentially divisive issue in recent years as journal inflation rates have increased.For many librarians and scholars, journal price infla tion is itself the central problem and open access is the solution.According to this view, the fact that libraries have to pay for access to some schol arly information is acceptable, but prices are too high and are increasing at an insupportable rate; the establishment of competitive open-access jour nals will force commercial publishers to moderate their profit-seeking behavior.1Some believe that scholarly information is a public good and ought to be available to the pub lic at little or no charge.2Others believe that a ll
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