University of Leipzig: News -- University of Leipzig breaks negotiations with academic publisher Elsevier

[From Google's English] "The negotiations at the University of Leipzig with the academic publisher Elsevier for the licensing of scientific journals for the current year have failed. Was mainly due to the view of the university clearly exaggerated ideas on price of large publishing house ... As early as 2013 had to cancel due to lack of resources, the consortial licensing agreement for the Free State of Saxony unilaterally the University of Leipzig. The follow-on contract in 2014 was associated with a significant reduction in the content and thus a significantly poorer cost-benefit ratio for the university.Among the last 300 magazines there were several, for a five-digit annual fee has been paid - the cost of the most expensive magazine amounted to more than 21,000 euros. 'For the University of Leipzig course, it is primarily about economic behavior, which we see committed. It concerns but increasingly also the question of how academic institutions which indeed produce a large portion of the content provided by Elsevier only the information supply their researchers to organize in the future. The Elsevier apparently unchanged favored, inflexible business model of the so-called big deals we believe to be overhauled,' explains Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, director of the Leipzig University Library. Rector Beate Schücking has long been touting for introducing so-called national licenses for the major scientific publishers ..."