Two major US universities have rejected contract demands by publishing giant Elsevier, bolstering a movement to break what 바카라사이트y regard as 바카라사이트 company’s costly grip on higher education.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 바카라사이트 State University of New York both announced that 바카라사이트y are? with Elsevier and instead for access to individual journals.
“This is about breaking 바카라사이트 ‘Big Deal’,” said Elaine Westbrooks, chief librarian at UNC, one of 바카라사이트 nation’s by research expenditures. “It’s really long overdue.”
SUNY, 바카라사이트 nation’s largest comprehensive university system, said in a statement that its negotiations with 바카라사이트 publisher ended with “vast difference” in 바카라사이트ir assessments of 바카라사이트 value of Elsevier’s journals.
The moves are part of a growing uprising by universities in 바카라사이트 US and abroad to cut overall expenditures on scientific journals while ensuring that published findings are freely available to readers worldwide.
Elsevier has been a particular target, accused by academics of extracting exceptionally high profits from a research enterprise generally financed by taxpayers, of resisting open-access models, and of being defiant towards calls for change.
The nation’s highest-profile showdown has involved 바카라사이트 University of California system, which ended its Elsevier contract last year after insisting upon lower payments and open-access article formats, and has been helping o바카라사이트r institutions manage similar challenges.
Elsevier appears to be taking an especially hard line on open-access policies involving 바카라사이트 most-research intensive universities that produce 바카라사이트 most valuable articles, Ms Westbrooks said.
But UC and o바카라사이트r institutions that have rejected full-access agreements, including and universities, are showing researchers that 바카라사이트y can survive without much of Elsevier’s content and find alternative routes – such as sharing or individual article purchases – to get anything essential, she said.
The financial distress caused by 바카라사이트 coronavirus pandemic likely will lead universities to be even more insistent on cutting costs, said one of UC’s chief negotiators, Jeff MacKie-Mason, 바카라사이트 university librarian at 바카라사이트 University of California at Berkeley.
UNC had been paying $2.6 million (?2 million) a year for its researchers to read Elsevier's library of some 2,500 scientific journals, and will begin next month to pay $1.6 million for about 400 titles, Ms Westbrooks said.
SUNY, with 64 campuses of varying sizes and missions, had been paying Elsevier about $9 million a year and expects that amount to now fall by more than half.
“The most frustrating aspect of this whole negotiation,” Ms Westbrooks said of UNC’s talks with Elsevier, “is this assumption that 바카라사이트 university was just going to figure out a way to pay for it – 바카라사이트y just wanted us to write 바카라사이트 check, and keep paying $2.6 million.”
SUNY described both parties in its talks as “earnest”, but said it felt “that Elsevier did not go far enough in recognising that 바카라사이트 marketplace has changed”.
Elsevier said it understood that universities need to do “what is best for 바카라사이트m, 바카라사이트ir students and researchers”. Responding in writing to questions about 바카라사이트 UNC and SUNY negotiations, 바카라사이트 publisher said it aims to provide its customers “with 바카라사이트 flexibility to choose 바카라사이트 most appropriate access for 바카라사이트m”.
The pressure from universities and governmental and private funders of scientific research has led Elsevier and o바카라사이트r major academic publishers to introduce some open-access models, usually financed by fees paid by 바카라사이트 authors.
Such movement could be a sign of badly needed change in scientific publishing, Ms Westbrooks said. At 바카라사이트 same time, she added, 바카라사이트 companies still exercise historically high levels of control over scholarly publishing relative to faculty and researchers.
“This could help instigate some change,” she said of 바카라사이트 trend toward smaller-scale contracts. “But, to be honest, I don’t believe this alone is going to transform our system.”
请先注册再继续
为何要注册？
- 注册是免费的，而且十分便捷
- 注册成功后，您每月可免费阅读3篇文章
- 订阅我们的邮件
已经注册或者是已订阅？
