From January 2017 on, Göttingen University — as well as more than 60 other major German research institutions — no longer has access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier.
We are not the only library making decisions in our purchasing strategies. This article chronicles decisions made by the Univ of Calgary Library that mirror the issues and decisions we are working through.
Strasser, Scott. "The rising price of knowledge: University of Calgary cuts 1,600 academic resources." The Gauntlet. N.p., 16 Jan. 2017. Web. 19 Jan. 2017.
These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement
