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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>16 Helmholtz Association Centers have terminated their license agreements with scientific publisher Elsevier effective by the end of 2017. With this decision, all of the Helmholtz Centers' Elsevier agreements that end on December 31, 2017 will expire. In doing so, the largest German research organization joins more than one hundred scientific organizations that have terminated or not extended their license agreements with Elsevier in order to strengthen the negotiating position of the DEAL project. Since 2016, representatives of the DEAL project have been negotiating a nation-wide licensing of magazines with the publisher Elsevier on behalf of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany. The negotiations have been very difficult, which is why the withdrawal should now send out a clear signal.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The President of the Helmholtz Association, Professor Otmar D. Wiestler, explains: "The Helmholtz Association will not conclude any license agreements in its own name with Elsevier. We are promoting the transition of the publishing system to open access and thus support the objectives of the DEAL project."</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The main objectives are as follows:</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>All scientific institutions participating in the DEAL agreement are to have permanent full text access to the entire range of Elsevier e-journals.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>All publications by authors from German institutions will automatically be open access (CC-BY, including peer review).</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Reasonable pricing according to a simple, future-oriented calculation model, based on the volume of publications.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Dr. Martin Köhler, library director of DESY and thus far chief negotiator for the Helmholtz Association agreements with Elsevier, has no concerns regarding the supply of literature: "The experiences of those who 'opted out' at the beginning of the year have shown that a contractless state can be handled without any problems. The Helmholtz libraries are well positioned. Even in the case of prolonged negotiations they will be able to continue a reliable supply with the required articles." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/">Information about the DEAL project</a></span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Contact: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Dr. Martin Köhler</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Head of library and documentation</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Phone: +49-40-8998-1814</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>E-mail: Martin.Koehler(at)desy.de Germany</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Christoph Bruch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Helmholtz Association<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>http://os.helmholtz.de<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>W: +49 (0)331 28 82 87 61<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>M: +49 (0)151 14 09 39 68<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>