« 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 with a discount on article processing charges (APC). (…) »
« 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 end a long-term contract dispute. (…)
Negotiators with ‘Project DEAL’, a consortium of university libraries and research institutes, have been…
« 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 Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) will focus on, i.a. lower prices, better and increased services from the publishers and a…
« 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 Springer/Couperin pour 2018 (pour plus de détail sur l’historique des accords passés avec l’éditeur se reporter à l’article
« 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 (« Article Processing Charge »-APC), l’association européenne Liber préconise cinq « principes » à respecter : (…) »
« 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 libraries in the past two years, and aim to guide libraries and consortia as they shift from a reader-pays model…
« 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 if the librarians and academic leaders at the table get their way, another major divide will soon fall: the paywall…
« 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 journals and open access publishing have been ongoing since 2016. Unfortunately, there has been no breakthrough in the negotiations. The…
« (…) 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 announced that they would not renew their subscriptions with the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier once they end…
« 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 access to knowledge. (…) »
