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“Thousands of academics and students in New Zealand and Australia are poised to
lose access to critical research journals next year.
Negotiations between the Council of Australasian University Librarians and
academic publishing giant Elsevier have broken down in what academic described
as universities' "battle of the century".
The council announced on Friday, it had "paused" talks with Elsevier over a
contract covering all of the two nations' universities.
"CAUL has paused discussions with Elsevier after both parties were unable to
reach agreement on major commercial terms, including pricing, agreement
structure and inclusion of gold open access journals," it said in a statement.
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and
Australia would "lose some degree of access" to Elsevier's 1600 titles from the
start of next year.
Another said New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on
journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.”
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
