The University of California has scored a massive win: A four-year deal that will make the content of more than 2,700 journals available to UC virtually without subscription charges. Columnist hiltzikm explains:
. It’s a major step forward in the campaign by UC — as well as academic institutions throughout the U.S. and the world — to scrap the existing business model of for-profit academic publishers.This is a big agreement. It demonstrates to the world that the open access publishing model that we’ve been promoting is feasible across all sizes of publishers, including large for-profit commercial publishers.In this campaign UC wields heavy firepower, as its the source of an estimated 10% of all U.S.
Column: In UC’s battle with the world’s largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake Traditionally, the publishers accept papers for publication for free but charge steep subscription fees. That model meant, in practice, that academic users incurred the cost of conducting their research and again to read their own papers in print or online. The model also erected a financial wall between authors and fellow scientists, who would also have to pay to read published papers.
with users in the Netherlands, Sweden and some research universities restoring access that had been terminated while allowing some open-access rights.Column: UC terminates its subscriptions to 2,500 journals in a battle over copyrights and accessAn Elsevier spokeswoman called the Springer Nature deal “good news for researchers and the shared objective of open access being advanced.”
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