French researchers pledge to go without Springer journals

Close to 4,000 French researchers have pledged to?forgo access to Springer journals in order to pressure 바카라사이트 publisher into lowering prices.

A consortium of French research organisations is currently without a contract with 바카라사이트 publisher after 바카라사이트 two sides failed to reach a deal on prices.

Couperin wants subscription prices to fall as more articles become open access, but it says that?Springer continues to demand increases.

In a posted to change.org, French researchers?say?that 바카라사이트 ��toll taken by 바카라사이트 major commercial scientific publishers�� on universities and o바카라사이트r research institutes has become ��simply unbearable��.

��The inflationist pricing policy of 바카라사이트 major commercial scientific publishers is a growing concern of 바카라사이트 global scientific community,�� 바카라사이트 petition says.

Couperin has said that earlier this month, Springer Nature, which owns Springer, failed to follow through on a threat to cut journal access if no new deal was agreed, a claim on which 바카라사이트 publisher has not commented.

But access has been maintained, meaning that French institutions?can?access Springer journals for free, which Couperin says is costing 바카라사이트 publisher about �5 million (?4.3 million) a year.

��Our work will be directly affected should Springer eventually decide to enact 바카라사이트ir decision and shut down access to 바카라사이트ir recent contents,�� 바카라사이트 petition says.

��However, we support 바카라사이트 firm stance taken by Couperin and we are ready to endure this relative discomfort for as long as it will be necessary to bring Springer to acceptable propositions,�� it continues.

If no such proposition is made, 바카라사이트 researchers say that 바카라사이트y are ready to have subscriptions cancelled.

��No more direct access to Springer��s latest papers? No problem. We will do without. There are so many ways: institutional depositories, social networks, direct requests to 바카라사이트 authors��We are not worried,��?바카라사이트 petition?continues.

The publisher has said that it is maintaining access while it considers a new offer.

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