Scholarly Publishing: “Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access” as Talks With Elsevier Resume

Note: For background see these infoDOCKET posts:

• Springer Signs Licensing Agreement with Dutch Universities (November 20, 2014)

• Negotiations Between Dutch Universities and Elsevier Over Open Access Have Failed (November 4, 2014)

From Times Higher Education (January 8, 2014):

A deal that meets the universities’ requirements was recently made with Springer, the world’s second-largest science journal publisher.
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Discussions have also begun with Wiley, Sage and Oxford University Press. But in November, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, known by the acronym VSNU, revealed that negotiations with Elsevier, the world’s largest science journal publisher, had broken down after the Amsterdam-based firm tabled an offer that “totally fails to address” the universities’ demands.
On 16 December, the VSNU announced that negotiations had resumed after Elsevier made another offer. It also said that Dutch universities’ current big deal with the publisher, which was due to expire on 1 January, would automatically be extended by one year, temporarily maintaining Dutch universities’ access to the publisher’s suite of 2,200 journals, which include Cell and The Lancet.

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