UC Press Supports University of California’s Stance on Elsevier – UC Press Blog

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-15

Summary:

"As the publishing arm of the University of California system, UC Press supports the UC libraries in their cancellation of the Elsevier “big deal” package. As small to medium-sized publishers of largely humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals, university presses (including UC Press) have had to compete for diminishing library resources to support our publishing programs. Due to the growing costs of these “big deal” packages, libraries cannot afford to subscribe to valuable journals from university presses with greater frequency. As a result, crucial HSS scholarship is difficult or impossible to access outside of R1 universities. (R1 is the classification for doctoral universities with “very high research activity” access)...."

Link:

https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/42028/uc-press-supports-university-of-californias-stance-on-elsevier/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.up oa.u.california oa.elsevier oa.cancellations oa.humanities oa.big_deals oa.ssh

Date tagged:

03/15/2019, 13:11

Date published:

03/15/2019, 09:11