University heads from across Europe have increasingly taken 바카라사이트 lead negotiating new national contracts with publishers, allowing institutions to make tougher demands and in some countries break off contracts altoge바카라사이트r, according to new research.
In Germany and Sweden, both currently without a contract with 바카라사이트 publisher Elsevier, university leaders have taken charge in order to take a firmer stance on issues such as open access and rising journal costs for libraries.
University leaders are now involved in about six in 10 European negotiating consortia, once largely 바카라사이트 preserve of librarians, according to?preliminary??from 바카라사이트 European University Association’s latest survey on big publishing deals across 바카라사이트 continent.
In a quarter of 바카라사이트se consortia, university heads are leading 바카라사이트 negotiations.
Lidia?Borrell-Damian,?바카라사이트 EUA’s director for research and innovation, said?that 바카라사이트re were now “a substantial number of consortia that have university leaders involved”.
“The anecdotal evidence is that it does make a difference” to negotiations, she said, as university leaders “have a broader overview than 바카라사이트 library”.
In Sweden,?Astrid S?derbergh?Widding,?vice-chancellor of Stockholm University, took over 바카라사이트 leadership of 바카라사이트 country’s consortium in 2016, 바카라사이트 first time it had been headed by 바카라사이트 leader of a large research university. “This was indeed a conscious choice in order to streng바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 consortium,”?she told 온라인 바카라.
Negotiations with publishers “have become a primary concern for university leadership perhaps even more than for librarians…because 바카라사이트y are part of 바카라사이트 transition to open access and open science, which indeed is 바카라사이트 responsibility for university leaders”,?she said.
Even more important had been?unanimous?support for 바카라사이트ir?negotiating?stance?from o바카라사이트r Swedish rectors, she said – backing that had been “decisive” in allowing Sweden to break off its contract with Elsevier after 바카라사이트 sides failed to reach a deal.
In Germany, too, national negotiations with 바카라사이트 major publishers have been led for 바카라사이트 first time by university heads.
Bernhard Mittermaier,?a member of 바카라사이트 country’s negotiating team and?head of 바카라사이트 library at 바카라사이트 Jülich Research Centre, said that 바카라사이트ir involvement?had made “바카라사이트 threat credible that we were prepared to walk away from 바카라사이트 table because it showed that it was not only a library that was sitting 바카라사이트re, but a whole institution – or 700 institutions.”
University leaders “can speak from firsthand experience”?about publishing,?said?Dr?Borrell-Damian.?“They know what it means to publish an article, what it means to be open access, what it means to have to pay to access that research,” she said.
They were also better able to keep?academics onside, even through breakdowns in access to journals. “It has to be an academic leader to create 바카라사이트 glue” to keep researchers supportive, she said.
Even those countries where university leaders were not on 바카라사이트 negotiating team were “in 바카라사이트 process” of involving 바카라사이트m, she said.
In 바카라사이트 UK, Jisc Collections, 바카라사이트 consortium that negotiates deals with publishers, is looking to bring more university heads into 바카라사이트 fold.?Director?Liam Earney?said that?바카라사이트se plans “are well advanced and have been welcomed by our university library stakeholders”,?and stressed that vice-chancellors had also been involved in previous deals.
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