90% of the 8 billion dollar world-wide market for academic research is paid for by library subscriptions. There is a serious problem here, indeed. Some excellent facts and recommendations were posted in this report. It was written by the Association of American Universities (61 leading research universities) in January, 2010 and it was initiated by the U.S. House’s Science and Technology Committee in conjunction with the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10044