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Elsevier Transition

Further Reading

Popular Press

“Why does it cost millions to access publicly funded research papers? Blame the paywall”, by Kelly Crowe. CBC News, March 9, 2019.

“Editorial: UC open access fight exposes publishing rip-off”The Mercury News, Published March 6, 2019.

“A bold open-access push in Germany could change the future of academic publishing”, by Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt, Science, 23 August 2017.

“Journal publishers’ Big Deals: Are they worth it?”, by Stéphanie Gagnon. Against the Grain, 29(2), 2017.

“E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020”, by Martin Enserink. Science, 14 April 2016.


Scholarly Articles

“Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era,”, by Fei Shu, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein, Kyle Siler, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Vincent Larivière. College & Research Libraries, v. 79, n. 6, p. 785, Sep. 2018

“E-Journals and the Big Deal: A Review of the Literature,” by Cindy Sjoberg. SLIS Student Research Journal, 6(2), January 2017.

“Leaving Elsevier’s ‘big deal’: an evaluation of the Italian National Institute of Health experience inside the Bibliosan Consortium”, by Franco Toni. 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML 2012), Limerick, May 22-25, 2012.


Blog Posts

“University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good”, by MacKenzie Smith.  Posted to The Conversation on March 9, 2019.

“When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries”, by Rick Anderson. Posted to The Scholarly Kitchen on May 1, 2017.

“Why Haven’t We Already Cancelled All Subscriptions?”, by Björn Brembs.  Posted to bjoern.brembs.blog on May 20, 2016.

“Let it go – Cancelling subscriptions, funding transitions”, by Cameron Neylon.  Posted to PLOS Opens on November 23, 2014.


Presentations and Other Materials

“Why UC split with publishing giant Elsevier”. Berkeley News interview with University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. Posted March 6, 2019.

“Breaking Bad, Good or Mixed? Perspectives on exiting (and sometimes re-entering) journal package deals”. ASERL Webinar, October 25, 2016.

Harvard Open Access Tracking Project (OATP): Tagged Developments on Open Access and Cancellations.