With increasingly constrained budgets, many academic libraries are undergoing serious journal review and cancellation project. Universities are increasingly providing campus-based open-access publishing funds and other support for open-access initiatives. In this environment, open access journals take on an increasing importance. However, open access journals are ‘under the radar’ of most library processes (as they typically aren’t selected/ordered in the same way as commercially published journals) and as such are often not represented (or represented in an ad hoc fashion) in library catalogs. CONSER must start planning now for an environment where academic libraries rely on an increasing amount of open access content. If the CONSER database is going to remain a viable and useful product, it must include important open access journals.