Re: UC v. NPG

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

Is this the straw that will break the camel's back?

>From today's Chronicle:

http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The University of California system has said "enough" to the 
Nature Publishing Group, one of the leading commercial scientific 
publishers, over a big proposed jump in the cost of the group's 
journals.

On Tuesday, a letter went out to all of the university's faculty 
members from the California Digital Library, which negotiates the 
system's deals with publishers, and the University Committee on 
Library and Scholarly Communication. The letter said that Nature 
proposed to raise the cost of California's license for its 
journals by 400 percent next year. If the publisher won't 
negotiate, the letter said, the system may have to take "more 
drastic actions" with the help of the faculty. Those actions 
could include suspending subscriptions to all of the Nature Group 
journals the California system buys access to-67 in all, 
including Nature....

The story has an embedded link to the letter.

Sandy Thatcher