The document discusses issues in scholarly publishing and efforts to make scholarly works more accessible through open access. It introduces SPARC, which advocates for open access. It then defines open access, open archives, and institutional repositories. Institutional repositories hosted by universities allow for collecting, organizing, and archiving scholarly works. Libraries are well-suited to take on these roles of maintaining institutional repositories and ensuring access to scholarly materials. Efforts like SPARC and CARL aim to advance open access and the role of libraries in archiving scholarship.