A. Rivera<p>Well, well, well, the chickens coming home to roost. Me and some other librarians (incl. celebrity ones) have been saying this for years. Publishers act as if the money will never run out, but meet goose and golden egg. </p><p>Help too if scholars and faculty stopped obsessing over high end journals and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PublishOrPerish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublishOrPerish</span></a>. You helped enable this. </p><p>> Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial</span><span class="invisible">sciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a></p>