Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access by Cory Doctorow.
Cory writes:
Germany’s DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has announced that all of its members are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier’s academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.
The boycott is in response to Elsevier’s refusal to adopt “transparent business models” to “make publications more openly accessible.”
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Just guessing but I suspect the DEAL project would welcome news of other consortia and schools taking similar action.
Over the short term, scholars can tide themselves over with Sci-Hub.
Cory ends:
No full-text access to Elsevier journals to be expected from 1 January 2017 on [Göttingen State and University Library]
How many libraries will you contact by the end of this year?