In Talks With Elsevier, UCLA Reaches for a Novel Bargaining Chip: Its Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Summary:

"The University of California at Los Angeles turned to an unusual bit of leverage as its system negotiates with Elsevier, the academic-publishing giant: its own faculty’s research.

In a letter on Tuesday, campus officials asked faculty members to consider declining to review articles for Elsevier journals until negotiations “are clearly moving in a productive direction.” The letter also asked professors to consider publishing research elsewhere, including in prestigious open-access journals.

The university system has said it wants to reach an agreement that would be less expensive and simplify open-access publishing. But time for negotiations is running out: The contract expires on December 31...."

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Talks-With-Elsevier-UCLA/245311

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Date tagged:

12/13/2018, 12:00

Date published:

12/13/2018, 07:02