Elsevier Update - SUNY Libraries Consortium (SLC) - SLC Guides at SUNY System Administration

"The State University of New York (SUNY) has opted not to renew its “big deal” with Elsevier for ScienceDirect in favor of a short list of titles to which campuses across the system will have access. SUNY is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, and its negotiation efforts were led by the SUNY Libraries Consortia (SLC) over a period of a year-and-a-half. While both parties negotiated in earnest and tried to come to acceptable terms for SUNY to maintain access to the full ScienceDirect package, in the end there was considerable disagreement around the value proposition of the “big deal”. While Elsevier did make some accommodations in recognition of our requirements, a vast difference remained between their proposed charges and our assessment of the value of the collection....

 Access to the ScienceDirect “big deal” terminated on April 1, 2020...."