Scholarly Communications @ Duke - Discussions about the changing world of scholarly communications and copyright

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-09

Summary:

"With the University of California’s (UC) announcement that they have broken off talks with mega-profitable commercial publisher Elsevier, we have moved closer to a tipping point in the ongoing struggle to correct asymmetries in the scholarly information ecosystem. Elsevier, along with the rest of the Big Five (Wiley, SpringerNature, Taylor & Francis, and Sage), has been put on notice: things as they are cannot stand. UC’s leadership in advancing open access is longstanding, and we applaud their continued efforts to seek new models that would transform scholarly publishing.

This is a great day to be a librarian, and a great day for scholars and scholarship. A day when the needle visibly moved in the right direction...."

Link:

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.u.california oa.cancellations oa.elsevier

Date tagged:

03/09/2019, 10:46

Date published:

03/09/2019, 05:46