<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Forwarding from Liblicense mailing list. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">LIBLICENSE</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liblicense@gmail.com">liblicense@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 23:04<br>Subject: Re: Norwegian libraries cancel Elsevier<br>To: <<a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">From: "Reller, Tom (ELS-NYC)" <<a href="mailto:t.reller@elsevier.com" target="_blank">t.reller@elsevier.com</a>><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:25:01 +0000<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello – Here is Elsevier’s response to the decision. Thank you.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Elsevier’s response to <span style="background:white">The Directorate for ICT and Shared Services in Higher Education and Research (UNIT)’s decision to not renew their agreement with Elsevier</span></b></p>
<p class="m_-651627136666453959m_-2369801607161963126MsoPlainText">Elsevier is a service provider, offering information and analytics that help institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance. We provide those services to customers at above-average market
quality and below-average market pricing. Our approach is to engage with our customers to understand their objectives and work with them to help achieve those objectives in a way they ultimately find economically attractive, while preserving the quality, integrity
and sustainability of the peer review publishing system.</p>
<p class="m_-651627136666453959m_-2369801607161963126MsoPlainText">While Elsevier is working hard to accommodate the desire of some for an author-pays-to-publish (open access) world, the reality is that current author choices mean that 85 percent of journal articles globally are published under the
reader-pays (subscription) model, where authors publish for free. It’s possible to come up with a negotiated agreement at reasonable costs, and Elsevier offered Norway multiple low-cost options for a rapid transition to gold open access publishing, but open
access is a service that has to be funded in some form. Norway is essentially asking to receive two services for the price of one.</p>
<p class="m_-651627136666453959m_-2369801607161963126MsoPlainText">Elsevier remains open to restarting constructive talks to help and support Norway’s transition to open access. UNIT’s decision to discontinue access to Elsevier’s latest high-quality content is unfortunate for everyone, particularly
researchers, especially as Elsevier cannot continue service indefinitely without being paid. We will continue to seek an agreement with UNIT directly and by communicating with the research community.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:2.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a">Tom Reller
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a">Vice President, Communications</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#ff8200">ELSEVIER</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#ff8200"> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a">|</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#53565a"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a">Global
Communications </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a"><a href="mailto:t.reller@elsevier.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#53565a">T.Reller@elsevier.com</span></a></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#53565a">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/TomReller" target="_blank"><span style="color:#53565a">@TomReller</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#53565a">Join Elsevier’s social media communities:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#53565a"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <<a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@LISTSERV.CRL.EDU" target="_blank">LIBLICENSE-L@LISTSERV.CRL.EDU</a>><br>From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <<a href="mailto:asokerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">aokerson@gmail.com</a>><br></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:15:16 -0400<u></u><u></u></p>
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"The offer from Elsevier is far from fulfilling the requirements of Norway for open access to research articles. Nor is there any movement in the agreement's period against paying for publishing instead of paying for reading access. The agreement with Elsevier
is therefore not renewed for 2019. The Rectorates at BOTT (the universities in Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø and Trondheim) support the decision."<br>
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<a href="https://www.unit.no/aktuelt/norske-forskningsinstitusjoner-har-besluttet-ikke-forlenge-avtale-med-forlaget-elsevier" target="_blank">https://www.unit.no/aktuelt/norske-forskningsinstitusjoner-har-besluttet-ikke-forlenge-avtale-med-forlaget-elsevier</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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