Norske forskningsinstitusjoner har besluttet å ikke forlenge avtale med forlaget Elsevier | Unit

From Google's English: "The offer from Elsevier is far from fulfilling the requirements of Norway for open access to research articles. Nor is there any movement in the agreement's period against paying for publishing instead of paying for reading access. The agreement with Elsevier is therefore not renewed for 2019. The Rectorates at BOTT (the universities in Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø and Trondheim) support the decision.

The Government's goal is for all Norwegian scientific articles financed by public funds to be openly available by 2024. The main objective is to go from paying to read articles via subscription to paying for having articles that are openly available. Unit - The Directorate for ICT and Joint Services for Higher Education and Research has, since the Government's national goals and guidelines came in 2017, negotiated with Elsevier about an agreement that will ensure such open access to articles published by Norwegian researchers. Unit negotiates and manages agreements on behalf of Norwegian research institutions. The agreement with Elsevier, known as the Science Direct Freedom Collection, has 44 Norwegian participants from universities, university colleges, research institutes and health enterprises. It is the largest deal unit dealer.

• In order to succeed with the transition to open publishing, the negotiations have been carried out based on a set of principles:
• Articles with corresponding authors from Norway shall be openly available at the time of publication
• Open publishing should not increase the total cost of the agreements
• Full transparency in license terms, costs and business models
• Permanent access to content published in subscription journal
• Movement is to be shown against agreements where costs are related to the volume of Norwegian institutions' publication...."