Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-01
Summary:
"The University of California — the United States’ largest public university system — has cancelled its subscription with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier after months of negotiations over a proposed deal that would have allowed university researchers to publish in Elsevier journals under open-access terms.
The move is the latest in an escalating global row between scholarly publishers and academic institutions, which are pushing to make more of the scientific literature freely available and say that the costs of publishers’ subscriptions are becoming unreasonably expensive.
The University of California (UC) is the first US institution to have completely cancelled its subscription with Elsevier because of such negotiations...."