The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.

The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says.

After negotiating for eight months, the University of California becomes one of the first research institutions in the US to stop paying for access to the publisher’s journals.

The three-year contract, in which all articles will be published as open access in exchange for an annual fee for journal subscriptions, is a triumph for Project DEAL.

The move is a show of support for Project DEAL and the open-access movement.

The UC system is pushing to change the subscription model and accelerate open access, but if there’s no contract agreement by December 31, faculty and students lose access altogether.

As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead.

Consortia in both countries are pushing for open-access subscriptions with the publisher.

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