<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since the beginning of 2020, the Swiss universities have a Read & Publish agreement with Elsevier (4 years for 57 mio EUR): </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have created a dashboard to continuously track all „Swiss" publications at Elsevier: <a href="https://oa-monitoring.ch/metabase/public/dashboard/a88453fb-aebc-4d90-b44f-ed37092f4dcf" class="">https://oa-monitoring.ch/metabase/public/dashboard/a88453fb-aebc-4d90-b44f-ed37092f4dcf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The data show that so far only 30% of all publications of the institutions participating in the agreement have become Open Access via the agreement. For reasons I cannot explain, many Swiss Corresponding Author Papers remain Closed Access, even though they are entitled to publication under the Open Access agreement. The agreed quota of APCs is unlikely to be exhausted. If it stays like this, the agreement threatens to become a major disaster.</div><div class=""><a href="https://oa-monitoring.ch/post/the_swiss_57_mio_euro_deal_with_elsevier/" class="">https://oa-monitoring.ch/post/the_swiss_57_mio_euro_deal_with_elsevier/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian Gutknecht</div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/chgutknecht" class="">https://twitter.com/chgutknecht</a></div></body></html>