"Under Elsevier’s proposed terms, the publisher would have charged UC authors large publishing fees on top of the university’s multi-million dollar subscription

"Under Elsevier’s proposed terms, the publisher would have charged UC authors large publishing fees on top of the university’s multi-million dollar subscription" So it's a move against both traditional paywalled publishing and Gold OA. The argument that some universities refuse to pay because they are "scholarly poor" [1] is only propaganda. [1] https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/google-translate-helps-the-scholarly-poor/ https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/google-tran...