In diesem Vortrag (Powerpoint, 6MB) auf der 28th UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Edinburgh, berichtet Colin Steele in witziger und ausführlicher Form über the recurring historical nature of the ’serial crisis‘, the open access movement, the costs of serials at both the ‚front end‘ and ‚back end‘, institutional repositories and the relationship of the academic book in electronic form to serial trends. Leseempfehlung! Ein gleichnamiger Artikel erscheint in Serials, July 2005.