Short Article - Mutinous librarians help drive change at Elsevier: Move to cut fees adds pressure to funding model already under strain

Title:
Mutinous librarians help drive change at Elsevier

Authors:
Alex Barker & Patricia Nilsson

Published:
Financial Times, 12 February 2020

Focus of article:
Academic librarians are playing a major role in pressuring Elsevier, as the main player in the $20bn academic publishing market, to change their traditional charging structures. 

To read this article:
https://www.ft.com/content/c846c756-49ac-11ea-aee2-9ddbdc86190d

"The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back" by Brian Resnick

Brian Resnick (2019) reported that the University of California has "just dropped its $10 million-a-year subscription to the world’s largest publisher of academic journals," referring to the end of its subscription to Elsevier.


To read this article:

Resnick, B. (2019). The costs of academic publishing are absurd: the University of California is fighting back. Retrieved from https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/1/18245235/university-of-california-elsevier-subscription-open-access