Six Things UVA Researchers Need to Know About the UC System Walking Away from Elsevier | UVA Library News and Announcements

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-07

Summary:

"A lot of press coverage has emphasized the UC’s demands around open access (more on that below), but it’s fairly clear from their public statements that what really broke the negotiations was their equally strong insistence on containing the runaway cost of the “Big Deal.” Like big cable TV bundles, journal Big Deals were first sold to libraries decades ago as a way of getting access to more content for less money. But the value proposition has not held up. Over the last two decades, costs for journals have far outpaced both inflation and library budgets, and that explosive growth has crowded out other resources. Mergers and acquisitions have resulted in a few oligopolies who dominate elite scholarly publishing; library collections investments now go disproportionately to this handful of massive firms, with Elsevier in the lead...."

 

Link:

https://news.library.virginia.edu/2019/03/07/six-things-uva-researchers-need-to-know-about-the-uc-system-walking-away-from-elsevier/

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

oa.new oa.elsevier oa.u.california oa.cancellations oa.u.virginia oa.big_deals

Date tagged:

03/07/2019, 18:35

Date published:

03/07/2019, 05:42