Sweden joins the ranks of Big Deal cancelers | American Libraries Magazine

"Bold efforts to push academic publishing towards an open-access model are gaining steam. Negotiators from libraries and university consortia across Europe are sharing tactics on how to broker new kinds of contracts that could see more articles appear outside paywalls. And inspired by the results of a stand-off in Germany, they increasingly declare that if they don’t like what publishers offer, they will refuse to pay for journal access at all. On May 16, a Swedish consortium became the latest to say that it wouldn’t renew its contract with publishing giant Elsevier."