cOAlition S announces price transparency requirements - May 19, 2020
Beginning July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members. Adhering to Plan S’s key principle of transparent pricing, cOAlition S has published its guidance on implementing price transparency when… Read More
CCC launches Education Continuity License to enable remote teaching and distance learning - March 25, 2020
Copyright advancing company Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced its Education Continuity License to enable creative approaches to remote teaching and distance learning made necessary by the pandemic. Over the past several days, educators across the US have contacted CCC… Read More
French academic consortium for higher education and research and Elsevier sign new national license agreement - December 3, 2019
Couperin, the French academic consortium for higher education and research, and Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed a new national license agreement. This four-year agreement (2019-2022) will provide researchers at universities and research institutions across France with equal access… Read More
Elsevier divests local author books portfolio in Brazil to GEN - August 6, 2019
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, part of RELX, has sold its Portuguese-language books portfolio in Brazil to Grupo Editorial Nacional (GEN). Elsevier also signed an agreement to license the translation and distribution of certain Elsevier titles in Portuguese to GEN.… Read More
Elsevier suspends University of California’s access to new articles - July 15, 2019
The University of California recently lost access to new articles in the publishing giant Elsevier’s journals. This is reportedly the latest development in the ongoing negotiations between Elsevier and the University of California (UC) for a new licensing agreement. UC’s previous contract… Read More
Elsevier and the Polish consortium announce national license agreement to boost access to high quality research - June 3, 2019
The Polish consortium for higher education and Elsevier, the information analytics business, have agreed on a national license agreement for access to critical academic research, while advancing Poland's open access objectives. The new three-year national license is based on a thorough analysis of the Polish requirements… Read More
