The UC and Elsevier are refusing to compromise at unacceptable cost to students | Daily Bruin

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-11-14

Summary:

"The room with the negotiating table isn’t the most pleasant room to be a part of.

But when hundreds of thousands of students are denied access to valuable research, there’s no other place negotiators should be.

It has been almost four months since the University of California’s California Digital Library lost direct access to Elsevier’s journals. Elsevier is one of the largest scientific publishers in the world, owning over 2,500 research journals that UC students and researchers were once able to access. The last agreement between the two parties, which valued at about $10.5 million, ended in December.

Negotiations for a new deal continued into the new year, but firmly broke off at the end of February over differing opinions on both sides about costs and access.

The CDL wanted to lower subscription costs and publish its research with open access to the public, while Elsevier wanted to charge publishing fees to UC authors on top of the monumental subscription cost – a cost that has seen incremental increases since 2014.

At the core of this standoff are two parties bickering with each other on the basis of unfeasible demands. Meanwhile, students will be the ones paying the price...."

Link:

http://dailybruin.com/2019/11/06/the-uc-and-elsevier-are-refusing-to-compromise-at-unacceptable-cost-to-students/

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oa.new oa.cancellations oa.elsevier oa.students oa.objections oa.debates oa.u.california

Date tagged:

11/14/2019, 17:52

Date published:

11/14/2019, 12:52