Publishing deals can drive change in research culture - Research Professional News

At present, there is little trust among the academic community that publishers are delivering value for money. Subscription and publishing costs are increasingly unaffordable and consume an escalating proportion of university budgets. For us at Leeds, it is vital to strike an open access ‘read and publish’ transformative agreement with Elsevier. Our researchers need to be able to publish their work open access, without our library having to pay more than it currently does.