The University of California has announced its decision not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. The move comes after months of negotiations over a proposed deal that would have allowed university researchers to publish in Elsevier journals under open-access terms.
Research produced by UC's 10 campuses accounts for nearly 10 percent of all U.S. publishing output. In negotiating with Elsevier, UC aimed to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by ensuring that this research is made immediately available to the world, without cost to the reader. The move is the latest in a rising global dispute between scholarly publishers and academic institutions, which are pushing to make more of scientific literature freely available. According to these academic institutions, the costs of publishers' subscriptions are becoming unreasonably expensive.
Open access publishing, which makes research freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, fulfills UC's mission by transmitting knowledge more broadly and facilitating new discoveries that build on the university's research and scholarly work. This follows UC's faculty-driven principles on scholarly communication.
Elsevier is the largest scholarly publisher in the world, disseminating about 18 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. The transformative model that UC faculty and libraries are championing will reportedly make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish in an open access environment.
The University of California (UC) is reportedly the first US institution to have completely cancelled its subscription with the global publisher.
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