[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [open-policy-network] Elsevier & Dutch universities in a stand-off

[Yana Welinder]

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 at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> FYI
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: LIBLICENSE <liblicense at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM
> Subject: Elsevier & Dutch universities in a stand-off
> To: LIBLICENSE-L at listserv.crl.edu
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>
> From: Jos Damen <josephcmdamen at 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-universities-failed.html
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