Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: UC & Elsevier update

[John Burger (jburger]

I think by now most people have heard the news that, after months of negotiation, the Univ of California system will cancel its Elsevier subscription package:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly.

 

Here’s the related news from overnight:

 

@TomReller:  Elsevier's response to the UC announcement today:  pic.twitter.com/NgK3iuYedd  
2/28/19, 6:33 PM

 

 

UC Office of Scholarly Communication guidance to users:  “Alternative Access to Elsevier Articles” 

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/alternative-access-to-articles/

 

 

 

--jeb

 

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