[GOAL] Max Planck Society cancels Elsevier agreement: OA via Projekt DEAL or no deal

[Richard Poynder]

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From: scholcomm-request at lists.ala.org <scholcomm-request at lists.ala.org> On
Behalf Of Colleen Campbell
Sent: 19 December 2018 16:37
To: scholcomm at lists.ala.org
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Max Planck Society cancels Elsevier agreement: OA via
Projekt DEAL or no deal

 

**with apologies for cross-posting**

 

The Max Planck Society, one of the world's largest research performing
organizations, counting 14,000 scientists who publish 12K new research
articles a year-around 1500 of which in Elsevier journals, has mandated the
Max Planck Digital Library to discontinue the Society's Elsevier
subscription when the current agreement expires on December 31, 2018.

 

With this move the Society joins nearly
<https://www.projekt-deal.de/elsevier-news/> 200 universities and research
institutions in Germany who have already cancelled their individual
agreements with Elsevier and affirmed their support of the national-level
<https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=f848b614b97ba279.f8489109-1b9be9eb7dc26f
c0&u=https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/> Projekt DEAL negotiations
seeking  <http://esac-initiative.org/guidelines/> transformative agreements
as a strategy to drive large scale transition of scholarly publishing to
open access. 

 

As no sustainable offer meeting DEAL's fundamental criteria for
transformation has been forthcoming, negotiations are suspended and Elsevier
cut off access last July. Despite the immediate implication of lack of
access to new Elsevier content from January 1, 2019, the Max Planck
Society's researchers and highest level administration provided their full
support in the decision. "DEAL is fully in line with the objectives of the
<https://oa2020.org/mission/> OA2020 Initiative, which is strongly supported
by the Max Planck Society," emphasized MPS President Martin Stratmann.

 

Read the full press release here:  <https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/505>
https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/505

 

 

Colleen Campbell

Open Access 2020 Initiative

Max Planck Digital Library

 <mailto:campbell at mpdl.mpg.de> campbell at mpdl.mpg.de 

+49 160 9725 1536

@ColleenCampbe11

 

 <https://oa2020.org/> https://oa2020.org

 <https://oa2020.org/Executive-Summary.pdf>
https://oa2020.org/Executive-Summary.pdf 

 

 

 

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