Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!

On faculty waking up to the serials pricing crisis, as if it were new and previously unnoticed: "This is disheartening for librarians who have spent the past thirty years feeling like chicken little, only with actual chunks of sky falling on us regularly. "Hey, people! This stuff is unbelievably expensive. I mean, look at these numbers, look at this chart I made. Can you help us cancel some journals? Would you maybe take a look at those publishing agreements before you sign them, because it turns out . . . hello? Yo, this might interest you: have you noticed we’re buying half of the number of books we bought last year, and we’ve been doing this math for a while? That’s because . . . hello, can I get your attention for just a minute? Pretty please? I'll buy you coffee." These are allegedly institutions of higher learning. Why is it so hard for faculty to learn what actually happens to their research? ..."