Re: UC v. NPG

[Richard Poynder <richard.poynder@gmail.com>]

Apropos of this list members might be interested in an interview 
with an equity analyst about Elsevier:

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/06/reed-elsevier-need-for-progressive.html


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu> wrote:

> 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