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KB samordnar omställningen till ett öppet tillgängligt vetenskapligt publiceringssystem.
Harvard sez "Elsevier's being jerks." From 2004.
Earlier this week, there was a mini-workshop in Paris called Couperin’s open science days 2018. (Original title in French: Journées sciences...
Although Finland and South Korea have agreed deals with the publisher, European sectors are looking to take a harder line
Nature - Scientists in Germany can still read journals even though institutions there have not renewed their subscriptions.
Nature - Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.
Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case
FOIA request to Elsevier from UNAM.
Loans between libraries, and research sharing between colleagues, could allow country to sever links, negotiators claim
These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.
Elsevier has been awarded $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories of millions of pirated scientific documents.
Nature - Some doubt that the publishing giant will see any money from the pirate site.
The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.
In a May 2 statement, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announced that Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit against academic publishing company Elsevier for breach of contract on February 27. According to the complaint, Elsevier cut off the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s (SVM) access to content that was legally licensed by LSU Libraries. For many reasons, especially Elsevier’s often contentious relationship with libraries over the decades, this will be one of the more interesting cases to watch unfold.
Now gaining visibility, the dispute between LSU and the Netherlands' Elsevier may reflect many more universities' concerns about duplicative contracts.
LSU has filed a lawsuit against Elsevier, claiming the publisher is wrongly blocking students in its veterinary school from accessing the library’s Elsevier subscriptions. Elsevier officials, meanwhile, are characterizing the contract dispute as a negotiation, and say they hope to settle it commercially.
Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries. In filing the lawsuit, LSU exercised sound financial stewardship of its public resources...
Advocates argue that universities should be prepared to ditch subscriptions altogether