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abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-17

Summary:

"Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt. In line with the policy pursued by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the universities want academic publications to be freely accessible. To that end, agreements will have to be made with the publishers. The proposal presented by Elsevier last week totally fails to address this inevitable change. The universities hope that Elsevier will submit an amended proposal. ‘From now on we will inform our researchers about the consequences of this deadlock’, says Gerard Meijer, president of Radboud University Nijmegen and chief negotiator on behalf of the VSNU ..."

Link:

http://vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html

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oa.netherlands oa.universities oa.prices oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.elsevier oa.vsnu oa.comment oa.new ru.sparc oa.policies oa.hei

Date tagged:

11/17/2014, 11:27

Date published:

11/17/2014, 08:03