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Showdown between Elsevier and UC over paying for publications (insidehighered.com)
2 points by Fede_V on Dec 17, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The worst part in most of these "Big Deals" is lock-in taxpayers money without any flexibility to save by cancelling titles of lower value. This is what prevents these funds from being spent on the new innovative lower cost and higher value initiatives. https://medium.com/@dmitri145/inefficient-publishing-industr...

And this is how we can change it: https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/100




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