News
Cancelling the Big Deal Project Spotlight - Ithaka S+R (6/22/2021)
With 50% Cut, Virginia Research Libraries Recalibrate Relationship with Elsevier - Sparc (4/2/2021)
Six questions (with answers!) about UC's and Elsevier's new transformative deal - Scholarly Kitchen (3/25/2021)
Big Deal for Open Access - Inside Higher Ed (3/17/2021)
UT System joins Texas Library Coalition to improve access to scientific journals - UT News (9/16/2020)
MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations - MIT News (6/11/2020)
Springer Nature and Germany's Projekt DEAL finalize world's largest transformative Open Access agreement - German Rector's Conference (1/9/2020)
Elsevier Progresses in Open-Access Deal Making: The scholarly publisher has announced several new licensing agreements in both Europe and the U.S.—but some major academic groups are still without contracts and access to journals - TheScientist (12/2/2019)
A New Kind of 'Big Deal' for Elsevier: Carnegie Mellon University has signed an open-access deal with Elsevier—the first of its kind for the publisher in the U.S. - Inside Higher Ed (11/22/19)
University Libraries joins Va. research libraries in endorsing MIT framework for publisher contracts - University Business (10/31/2019)
Rules for Making Big Deals: Dozens of insitutions have endorsed a set of guiding principles for negotiating contracts that support open-access practices with scholarly publishers. - Inside Higher Ed (10/25/2019)
The business model for publishing has not changed since the 17th century. It should. - Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, UNC Chapel Hill (10/4/2019)
Statement: ARL Supports University of California Libraries' Commitment to Barrier-Free Access to Information - Association of Research Libraries (9/27/2019)
VIVA broadens open access for Virginia with a new Wiley agreement - VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium (9/4/2019)
Toward a new kind of 'Big Deal' - Inside Higher Ed (8/30/2019)
University of California cancelled its Elsevier subscription. Now it’s losing access. - Chronicle of Higher Education (7/10/2019)
Peter Potter column: University research produced for public good must be available to those who pay for it - Richmond Times Dispatch (6/14/2019)
Access Matters: a changing landscape in sharing research for the public good - VT News (4/29/2019)
Find out who is standing up for open access - track big deal cancellations. - SPARC (updated continuously)
Why does it cost millions to access publicly funded research papers? Blame the paywall - CBC News (3/9/2019)
University of California System Cancels Elsevier Subscriptions, Calling Move a Win for Open Access - Chronicle of Higher Education (2/28/2019)