My friend and colleague David Carlson, university librarian at Texas A&M, called my attention today to this announcement of a coalition of Texas academic libraries that has been formed to take forward negotiations with Elsevier at a statewide level.  I am impressed by the effort required and the success at getting many different institutions (and different kinds of institutions) to come together in this work.  I gather that there may be additional universities added to the group.  Congratulations to David and colleagues!

Jim O'Donnell

Arizona State University