Since the seventeenth-century founding of the Royal Society of London, scholarly societies have been dedicated to facilitating communication among their members. For the most part, that communication has taken place through annual meetings and periodical publications. The affordances of the internet, however, have begun to change the ways that members of those societies are connecting with one another, as well as with the broader public. Moreover, calls for public access to the products of scholarly research are increasing, and often seem to be at odds with the membership-based ethos of scholarly societies. The conflict, however, is unnecessary, though its resolution will require significant changes in how we think about scholarly communication and the societies that facilitate it. This talk will explore some of those changes, describing one potential path forward into an increasingly open future.