Why UC split with publishing giant Elsevier | University of California

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-07

Summary:

"Elsevier made a new, quite complex, but novel proposal to us at the end of January. On Monday, our negotiating team gave them a written response outlining our appreciation for Elsevier’s effort, but saying that conditions had to be met for us to sign a contract, and that we thought we were pretty far apart. We knew if they couldn’t accommodate us, there was not much point in continuing to negotiate at this time.

Elsevier wanted to keep meeting with us, and we have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow (March 1), but yesterday they approached our faculty directly — faculty who are editors of Elsevier journals, who they have working relationships with — and also the media, and presented a rosy view of the offer they’d made to us. Their characterization of the offer left things out, and they didn’t mention what we’d proposed as conditions. They went public with it. So, we announced the end...."

Link:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-uc-split-publishing-giant-elsevier

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.u.california oa.elsevier oa.cancellations oa.interviews oa.people

Date tagged:

03/07/2019, 11:27

Date published:

03/07/2019, 06:27