Universities secure deal with major research publisher

"Universities in Australia and New Zealand have negotiated a landmark licensing deal with one major research publisher but paused talks with another as they seek to reduce their multi-million-dollar spend on journal access.

Staff at 47 institutions across the two nations were last week told of an in-principle agreement with publishers Taylor & Francis but the looming loss of access to Elsevier publications. The Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) said the Taylor & Francis deal reached by the council, Universities Australia (UA), and Universities New Zealand (UNZ) was the first to be secured under a new negotiation framework."