Faculty and publishers are essential to scholarly communication. Faculty write, review, and serve on editorial boards. Publishers solicit, edit, distribute and maintain publications. In the past, these two groups have worked fairly harmoniously in disseminating scholarship and scientific discoveries. In recent years, however, the pursuit of profits has replaced an emphasis on broad distribution of faculty output. The system no longer meets needs of the scholarly and scientific reader/authors on whom it depends.

If faculty wish to have a scholarly publishing system that serves their needs, and the needs of their students and colleagues, they need to make their voices heard. Publishers rely on faculty for content and for peer review. If faculty speak, the publishers must listen. This website advises faculty on action to ensure that the scholarly publishing system continues to distribute their work to a broad readership.