[GOAL] Re: Deal in France, no deal in The Netherlands

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

We should all get behind the Dutch universities and tell them to stand 
firm, and tell them that we are going to do all that is possible to 
help them. 
 And the French should have done the same. This would have generated a 
spirit of resistance that would have quickly spread across Europe and 
beyond.
Jean-Claude Guédon

Le mercredi 05 novembre 2014 à 08:28 +0000, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) a écrit :
> 
> Over last few days we witnessed Elsevier reaching a new 5-year deal 
> with French Universities, for 33,4 M euro’s per year: 
> http://scoms.hypotheses.org/293. The deal is also said to have a 
> data mining paragraph. Almost at the same time news broke that Dutch 
> universities did not accept Elsevier’s  offer for a new deal for the 
> years ahead: 
> http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html. The Dutch required major steps towards Open Access, but apparently 
> Elsevier did not want to move enough to satisfy the Dutch 
> negotiators. According to the press release by VSNU, the Dutch 
> association of universities, researchers are now likely faced to 
> have no access to Elsevier journals from January 2015. In a dutch 
> newspaper, De Volkskrant, the negotiators said that perhaps scholars 
> will need to email authors to get access, or to use versions 
> available in repositories. I think this is a major test case: a full 
> small country (although medium sized in research output) having no 
> access to new content in Elsevier journals.
>  
> Jeroen Bosman
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