Even if every researcher in the University of California system stopped publishing with Elsevier, this problem would still exist: UC libraries would need contra

Even if every researcher in the University of California system stopped publishing with Elsevier, this problem would still exist: UC libraries would need contracts with Elsevier for their journals, because researchers at other universities publish with Elsevier, and UC researchers need access to their work to do their jobs. There is a campaign to boycott publication in Elsevier journals more generally, which has been going on for many years, but the collective action problem means it hasn't dented Elsevier much: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ http://thecostofknowledge.com/