Negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019.

University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it

Boiled down to dollars and cents, the battle between the University of California, the nation’s premier producer of academic research, and Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of academic journals, can seem almost trivial.

A growing number of libraries are unbundling their subscriptions to the full suite of publishers’ journals, opting for limited titles to save on costs.

TO:        UC Davis Academic Community FROM:  MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law and Vice Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication RE:       Potential Changes to the UC’s Relationship with Elsevier in January 2019   An Open Letter to the Academic Community:  The University of California is renegotiating its systemwide licenses with some of the world’s largest scholarly journal publishers, including industry giant Elsevier. These negotiations may create significant changes in our access to new articles published in Elsevier journals as soon as January 1, 2019. (See below for details on town hall meetings where you can learn more regarding access and timing.) Importantly, the UC has adopted a new approach to these negotiations, seeking not only to constrain the runaway costs of journal subscriptions, but to make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish their research with open access. Depending on how the negotiations proceed, a range of potential outcomes could materialize: If we are successful, the UC may begin to implement a new system for publishing research in Elsevier journals in the near future. On the

Can we as a scientific community be better and truly make science available for all?

Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections in academic libraries increased almost fivefold from 1986 to 2011. Using data on library subscriptions and references made for a sample of North American universities, this study provides evidence that, while big deal bundles do decrease the mean price per subscribed journal, academic libraries receive less value for their investment. We find that university researchers cite only a fraction of journals purchased by their libraries, that this fraction is decreasing, and that the cost per cited journal has increased. These findings reveal how academic publishers use product differentiation and price strategies to increase sales and profits in the digital era, often at the expense of university and scientific stakeholders.

There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.

Springer Nature’s recent stock initial public offering (IPO) ultimately failed, but it provided the academic community with plenty of information about the company’s and the academic publishing ind…

As part of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer to extend the contract for legal and fiscal professional literature, the VSNU ...

KB samordnar omställningen till ett öppet tillgängligt vetenskapligt publiceringssystem.

RSC vs. VSNU. Pass the popcorn.

Nature - Sweden is latest country to hold out on journal subscriptions, while negotiators share tactics to broker new deals with publishers.

Sector’s move follows similar rows in France and Germany

KB samordnar omställningen till ett öppet tillgängligt vetenskapligt publiceringssystem.

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.

Research institutions, first in Germany and now in France, are finding that publishers do not cut off access to journals – even when they stop paying