« The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed a 3 year agreement regarding the Science Direct Freedom Collection. The agreement offers researchers also an opportunity to publish their articles open access…
« Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly
Around 200 German universities will lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals within weeks, because negotiations have failed to…
« In response to the significant contributions of Danish researchers, all institutions represented by DEFF demand lower prices and increased services from the academic publishers.
During this year’s license negotiations…
« Une discussion anime actuellement le Réseau national des bibliothèques de mathématiques concernant les abonnements aux revues de l’éditeur Springer. Au cœur de ce débat se trouve le renouvellement de l’accord…
« Pour aider les bibliothèques à négocier avec les éditeurs le passage d’un modèle économique basé sur les abonnements à un financement du libre accès des articles publiés, de type auteur-payeur…
« LIBER, Europe’s leading association of research libraries, presents Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers.
The principles are based on the experiences of LIBER…
« BERLIN—In a third-floor conference room here overlooking the famous Potsdamer Platz, once bisected by the Berlin Wall, the future of academic publishing is being negotiated. The backdrop is fitting, because…
« Elsevier has approached academic institutions and researchers in Finland. The letter states Elsevier’s view on the negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Elsevier. These negotiations regarding online access to scholarly…
« (…) In Germany, the fight for open access and favorable pricing for journals is getting heated. At the end of last month (June 30), four major academic institutions in Berlin…
« Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin are canceling their contract with the international publisher Elsevier. They are demanding fair prices and free…
