This week the University of California (UC) 10 campus system (which accounts for nearly 10% of all US publishing output) decided to cancel its Elsevier subscription after months of contract negotiations. UC is committed to open access and set a goal to make research immediately available to readers at no cost. Elsevier would only make this possible by charging authors large publishing fees on top of the university's multi-million dollar subscription. UC's contract terms were to integrate subscription charges and open access publishing fees which would make open access the default for articles written by UC researchers. The Academic Senate at UC issued a statement endorsing UC's position.
Read the press release from UC Office of the President here.
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