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University of California Won't Renew Subscription With Academic ... - KQED

The University of California is trying to negotiate free public access to scientific research conducted by its publicly funded schools. UC, which publishes about 10 percent of the country’s science ... read more

UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher ...

In negotiating with Elsevier, UC aimed to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by ensuring that research produced by UC’s 10 campuses — which accounts for nearly 10 percent of all U.S. read more

Column: UC terminates its subscriptions to 2,500 journals in a battle ...

In the world of academic publishing, UC’s action is tantamount to a nuclear shot. UC claims to generate nearly 10% of all published research in the United States. The university also has been a ... read more

Column: In UC’s battle with the world’s largest scientific ...

Boiled down to dollars and cents, the battle between the University of California, the nation’s premier producer of academic research, and Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of ... read more

Why UC split with publishing giant Elsevier - University of California

On Feb. 28, 2019 the University of California ended negotiations with Elsevier, one of the world’s largest scholarly journal publishers. UC’s main goal since negotiations began in July had been to ... read more

Publishing giant Elsevier cuts UC access after negotiations fail ...

World’s largest scientific publisher cuts access to UC in battle over ... the giants over how academic research is shared ... which 100 percent of UC authors would publish open access. read more

Heavyweight Showdown Over Research Access - Inside Higher Ed

The UC system, which paid over $10 million this year to the publishing giant Elsevier in journal subscription fees, is unhappy with the status quo. So unhappy that when the UC system’s current ... read more

University Of California Battles With Global Publisher Elsevier Over ...

The University of California and the world's largest publisher of scientific research are locked in a dispute over how information is shared. This struggle could end up reinventing a global system ... read more

UC strikes deal with Elsevier to increase research accessibility

The UC system will pay Elsevier about $13 million for open access publishing. While it is the same price paid in 2018, the UC system will save about 7% when considering annual inflation rates ... read more

Editorial: UC challenges costly research publishing methods, fights for ...

California’s premier research university system has been brawling since last year with Elsevier, a publishing giant, over open access to the company’s many journals. Thursday, July 3, 2025 ... read more

Beyond the Battle for Open Access - Inside Higher Ed

It wants to keep revenue flowing at both ends, from subscriptions and author-side fees (payments to make works open access). Since UC couldn’t get a deal they considered fair, they took the ten ... read more

University of California Won't Renew Subscription With Academic ... - KQED

Update March 4: Researchers at University of California schools may soon lose access to research appearing in journals published by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers in the world. UC ... read more