On Elsevier and the University of California - Don't publish in these journals if you want us to read it. : labrats
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-08-07
Summary:
"I'm currently finishing up my PhD at UC Berkeley. Our university is fighting the good fight against Elsevier. They have a partial monopoly on the academic publishing market, and I'm very supportive of the effort to negotiate the contract.
If you've got any option to avoid the journals on this list, you should. We can't see it in the UC system. Additionally, if these journals felt the impact of Elsevier's reluctance to negotiate, they may put pressure on Elsevier to move towards the UC's position (open access support).
Here is a list of articles that we can't read that are on the Science Direct platform:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rkCkDZp2-XUbRUq3hwU31DPtpQ4qxeYqoeYH-KGCJaA/edit?usp=sharing
Also, anything that is not open access on the Cell Press platform is out of view too.While we can go through the inter library loan process to find critical articles, it is much slower than the direct access we've become accustomed to...."