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Google English: "Sweden contradicts the science fiction - industry cheered

In the week, the message came to the effect that the Association of Biblical Consolidations announces the agreement with the Dutch science publisher Elsevier. Today, the parties meet for talks in Stockholm. "We expect them to be pretty sour," says the Royal Library Unit Head of the National Library Cooperation Anna Lundén.

It was on Wednesday that the Royal Library told them that they for the Bibsamskonsortiet terminated the agreement with the Dutch publisher Elsevier. This is due to a power struggle between publishers and politicians who basically deals with how much publishers can be paid by research institutions to publish publicly funded research. Today, universities and colleges pay both when they publish the articles openly available and when they will then read them. And costs are increasing steadily.

- I got standing ovations when I told us that we terminated the agreement for my European colleagues at a meeting in Brussels this week, says the Royal Library Unit Head of the National Library Cooperation Anna Lundén.

And at Library Days in Stockholm, MIT's deputy librarian, Tracy Gabridge, cheered "well done" when she heard the news.

The EU has set a tough deadline for the transition to open science and 2020 is the idea that all publicly funded research should be openly available. A development that crashes with the science publisher's business model. Germany has taken the lead and canceled its contract with Elsevier already two years ago. Sweden is the second country that dares to terminate the agreement, despite the fact that the country's researchers from July 1 can stand without updated research information...."