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"A quiet revolution is sweeping the $20 billion academic publishing
market and its main operator Elsevier, partly driven by an unlikely
group of rebels: cash-strapped librarians.
When Florida State University cancelled its “big deal” contract for all
Elsevier’s 2,500 journals last March to save money, the publisher warned
it would backfire and cost the library $1 million extra in pay-per-view
fees.
But even to the surprise of Gale Etschmaier, dean of FSU’s library, the
charges after eight months were actually less than $20,000. “Elsevier
has not come back to us about ‘the big deal’,” she said, noting it had
made up a quarter of her content budget before the terms were changed."
Excellent news! Via Matto F and Alan Cox.
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