{"id":1241,"date":"2016-12-16T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:09:06","slug":"now-elsevier-deal-rejected-germanys-project-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/now-elsevier-deal-rejected-germanys-project-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"What now? Elsevier deal rejected by Germany&#8217;s Project DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0been announced that all members of <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt-deal.de%2F&amp;edit-text=\" target=\"_blank\">Project DEAL\u00a0<\/a>in Germany are expecting they will have no\u00a0full text access to\u00a0all Elsevier academic and scientific journals from 1st January 2017.\u00a0They will\u00a0still have\u00a0access to most archived journal issues. So what&#8217;s happened and how has this situation\u00a0developed? About 60 major research institutions who are members of the DEAL Project in Germany cancelled their Elsevier contracts\u00a0in October 2016. The aim is to\u00a0boost their joint negotiating power with Elsevier.\u00a0However, yesterday\u00a0Elsevier&#8217;s first\u00a0offer\u00a0was rejected by the German group with the\u00a0result\u00a0that their institutions will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sub.uni-goettingen.de\/en\/news\/details\/voraussichtlich-keine-volltexte-von-zeitschriften-des-elsevier-verlags-ab-dem-112017\/\" target=\"_blank\">no full text Elsevier journal access <\/a>from 1st January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Why have over 60 research institutions taken such drastic\u00a0action? The offer was rejected because the members of the DEAL Project felt it didn&#8217;t comply with\u00a0open access and fair pricing.<\/p>\n<p>What will happen when full text access to major scientific articles\u00a0stops abruptly\u00a0on 1st January? Only time will tell and who will buckle first?\u00a0Will it be\u00a0Elsevier or will support within the\u00a0research institutions slowly crumble as they field their customers&#8217; complaints? Again, only time will tell. One institution acting alone has very little influence but over 60 acting together and the situation changes radically. We can be sure there will be a lot of interested people watching to see what the next move will be by both sides as this story unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>We live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0been announced that all members of Project DEAL\u00a0in Germany are expecting they will have no\u00a0full text access to\u00a0all Elsevier academic and scientific journals from 1st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139,141,140,5],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access","tag-deal-project","tag-elsevier","tag-germany","tag-open-access-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What now? 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