"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") focuses on current and emerging topics that are strategically important to research libraries. The articles explore issues, share information, pose critical questions, and provide examples. This issue includes the following articles: (1) Issue on the Transformation of Scholarly Communications (M. Sue Baughman); (2) The Transformation of Scholarly Communications, Part I: Context and Background (Rikk Mulligan); (3) The Transformation of Scholarly Communications, Part II: Journal Articles and Short-Form Scholarship (Rikk Mulligan); and (4) The Transformation of Scholarly Communications, Part III: Long-Form Scholarship: Monographs and Scholarly Books (Rikk Mulligan). Individual articles contain endnotes.