DSHR's Blog: Walking Away From The Table
lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-23
Summary:
"By being willing to walk away, the Dutch achieved a partial victory against Elsevier's defining away of double-dipping, their insistance that author processing charges were in addition to subscriptions not instead of subscriptions. This is a preview of the battle over the EU's 2020 open access mandate.
The UK has just concluded negotiations, and a major German consortium is in the midst of them. Below the fold, some commentary on their different approaches."