Interesting development. Thanks for forwarding, Dimi! From the press release, it sounds like they were focusing of accessibility rather than free reuse. It would be nice to be able to add reuse to the agenda for these kind of negotiations, before they reach deadlock of course.
Best, Yana
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Dimitar Dimitrov < dimitar.dimitrov@wikimedia.de> wrote:
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LIBLICENSE liblicense@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM Subject: Elsevier & Dutch universities in a stand-off To: LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu
From: Jos Damen josephcmdamen@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM
"Negotiations between Elsevier and universities failed (PRESS RELEASE VSNU, 4 November 2014)
Universities want to move to Open Access publications
Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt. In line with the policy pursued by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the universities want academic publications to be freely accessible. To that end, agreements will have to be made with the publishers. The proposal presented by Elsevier last week totally fails to address this inevitable change. The universities hope that Elsevier will submit an amended proposal. ‘From now on we will inform our researchers about the consequences of this deadlock’, says Gerard Meijer, president of Radboud University Nijmegen and chief negotiator on behalf of the VSNU."
More: http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-univer...
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