North American Universities Increasingly Cancel Publisher Packages | The Scientist Magazine®

"Driven by the European Commission’s goal of making all scientific articles freely available by 2020, a number of countries have been pushing for more academic publishers to adopt so-called “publish-and-read” models, which cover reading paywalled papers and publishing articles as “gold” open access (immediately and freely available from the publisher) in one fee. While some of these negotiations have been successful, others have led to disagreements and stalled subscriptions."