Change the Game ? Hypotheses on the Future Cooperation of Libraries , Researchers , and Publishers

Open access has been the pivotal change in relations between libraries and academic publishers in the last decade. Not only has it introduced a potentially disruptive business model threatening the publishing ecosystem, but it has also put the individual researcher back into the fray. The long-term impact of the emerging pattern of different forms of publishing has been largely overlooked so far. It is about to change academic publishing from a producing, content-driven industry into a service industry, with significant consequences for all parties of the ecosystem.