Unbundling Profile: East Carolina University - SPARC

"On December 31, 2020, East Carolina University exercised its early termination clause and unbundled from its Elsevier big deal. Instead of spending $1.4 million, ECU now pays about $355,000 to provide access to 122 individual titles, netting an annual savings for the institution of approximately $1 million a year. The decision was broadly supported by faculty and has helped to raise awareness about the unsustainability of the publishing environment...."