Project Deal: Germany’s Largest Scientific Organization Announces It Will Terminate Elsevier Contract at the End of 2017
New on the Project Deal website is this announcement (in German) from Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (the largest scientific organization in Germany) that it will join other Project Deal institutions/organizations and terminate its contract with Elsevier at the end of 2017.
Details From Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Are Available in English (via Mechanical Translation):
Translation of Statement via Google Translate
Translation of Statement via Microsoft Translator
See Also: List of German Institutions That Plan to Not Extend Contract with Elsevier at the End of 2017 (via Project Deal/Translation via Google Translate)
See Also: Report: “Bold Open-Access Push in Germany Could Change the Future of Academic Publishing (August 23, 2017)
See Also: Finnish Researchers Launch Boycott Against Elsevier (June 25, 2017)
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Elsevier, News, Open Access, Publishing
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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