U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal

"In a statement published Jan. 27, the University of Sheffield revealed it was signing up to three-year deals with Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley and Sage but was walking away from an offer by Elsevier, the world’s biggest academic publisher....Lancaster University and the University of Surrey have also confirmed they will not sign another deal with Elsevier, joining the universities of Essex, Kent and Sussex among those walking away from direct access to the imprint’s 2,800 journals."