Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Brink | Absolutely Maybe

"It’s the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping – charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for publishing (author processing charges, or APCs). Last year it was France getting tough on the toughest negotiator: Elsevier. This year, the Netherlands took it right to the brink of cutting Elsevier loose. It was summed up by a January headline: 'Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access'. Coming into the new year, other nations were taking up positions about the future they want to see too – for example, major Austrian science funders plumped for a non-commercial open access future. And some universities and consortia of universities set up open access publishing operations – like the University of California Press’ Collabra. Here’s an explanation the thinking behind the system developed by 5 Dutch universities: OPuS. Here’s a month-by-month roundup of some of the major action ..."