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More than two years after negotiations began, the University of California and the academic publisher Elsevier announced on March 16 that they had finally secured an open-access deal.
“We hope that others will take the message that a research-intensive, high-output institution can, in fact, negotiate and implement an open-access agreement with a major publisher that is affordable and sustainable,” says Ivy Anderson, the associate executive director of the California Digital Library and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team. “It’s a path that we hope others will consider following.”
The agreement comes after a widely publicized split between Elsevier and UC, a network of 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After eight months of negotiations with no deal, UC cancelled its subscription to Elsevier in February 2019. Following this move, many academics spoke out in support of UC by stepping down from their positions on ...
