Nature: Thousands of Scientists Run Up Against Elsevier’s Paywall

From a Nature Article:

Researchers at German institutions that have let their Elsevier subscriptions lapse while negotiating a new deal are hitting the paywall for the publisher’s most recent articles around 10,000 times a day, according to Elsevier — which publishes more than 400,000 papers each year.

But at least some German libraries involved in negotiating access to Elsevier say they are making huge savings without a subscription, while still providing any articles their academics request.

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Meanwhile, thousands of scientists in Germany, Hungary and Sweden have to cope without immediate access.

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