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There's currently a push in Germany to negotiate more reasonable licensing agreements nationwide, and to publish all research by authors in Germany under a CC-B
by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's currently a push in Germany to negotiate more reasonable licensing agreements nationwide, and to publish all research by authors in Germany under a CC-BY licence: https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/ https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/. There's a long list of universities that have decided not to renew their contracts with Elsevier for future publications. I recently got an email from my university's administration that "numerous scientists have pledged their support in the negotiations with Elsevier by not reviewing for or acting as editor of Elsevier publications until a mutual agreement has been reached".
- Vinnl 9y agoAnd apparently something similar is happening in France with Springer (and next year Elsevier): https://www.soundofscience.fr/755 https://www.soundofscience.fr/755 (article in French)
- manol74 9y agoI work at a German research center and we recently also got informed by our library that all contracts with Elsevier will end at the end of year. However, and this is the fun part, it was also noted that it has been reported by other institutions that Elsevier did not actually cancel the access permissions for them after the contracts ended. Seems to me we could finally got into a good position for negotiations about fair access to our own work.