Cornell Announced Its Elsevier Journal Cancellations
Cornell University Library (CUL) administrators decided to subscribe to a smaller number of individual journal titles from Elsevier instead of renewing a bundled journal package.
“Cornell is not alone in its decision this year. Harvard recently announced that it is reconsidering its big deal with Elsevier and other research libraries are following suit. Several well-respected researchers have called for a boycott of Cell Press journals (which are owned by Elsevier) since the University of California has been unable to negotiate for fair prices. (See http://walterlab.ucsf.edu/cell.html.) Columbia University is maintaining access to its Elsevier titles, but will be eliminating almost all print copies in favor of electronic journals only.”
The Times (London) also reported on the situation.
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North Carolina State University is also reconsidering their Elsevier contract
