From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:16:31 +0000

For me, the most interesting part of that paragraph is:

“...says Gerard Meijer, president of Radboud University Nijmegen and
chief negotiator on behalf of the VSNU”

It is striking that it is the President of one of the Dutch
universities that is leading the negotiations.  This takes it well
beyond a question of ‘just’ library budgets into a wider discussion of
infrastructure for scholarly communications.  A very positive move, I
feel.

David


On 5 Nov 2014, at 02:11, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Jos Damen <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM
>
> "Negotiations between Elsevier and universities failed (PRESS RELEASE
> VSNU, 4 November 2014)
>
> Universities want to move to Open Access publications
>
> Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company
> Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt.
> In line with the policy pursued by the Ministry of Education, Culture
> and Science, the universities want academic publications to be freely
> accessible. To that end, agreements will have to be made with the
> publishers. The proposal presented by Elsevier last week totally fails
> to address this inevitable change. The universities hope that Elsevier
> will submit an amended proposal. ‘From now on we will inform our
> researchers about the consequences of this deadlock’, says Gerard
> Meijer, president of Radboud University Nijmegen and chief negotiator
> on behalf of the VSNU."
>
> More: http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html
>
>
> JD