23 January 2003 speech at 'Open Access: economic models and legal implications' session of the Conference "Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends" (Paris, 23-24 January 2003). The textual version was published with the title 'Libraries and international infrastructure for Open Access services' in "Information Services and Use", vol. 23 (2003), issue 2-3, p. 117-118.