From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:14:13 +0000
Thank you for this most useful explanation as it can be difficult to
understand the situation from corporate press releases and media coverage!
Might you be able to share how you are approaching access for the
backfiles? I.e., are you continuing to pay Elsevier the hosting fee? Or,
have you downloaded and are hosting locally/collectively?
--
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Professor/ Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
University Library, University of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive,
Urbana, Illinois 61801
[log in to unmask], 217-333-1323 (v), 217-244-4358 (f)
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From: "Bernd-Christoph Kämper (UB)" <[log in to unmask]
uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:00:16 +0200
Dear Toby and Liblicense-L readers,
that is correct, but the situation in Sweden is a bit different from
Germany.
In Sweden, the previous contract has been renewed monthwise during the
negotiations, for details cf.
http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/bibsamkonsortiet/qa-about-the-
cancellation-of-the-agreement-with-elsevier-commencing-1-july/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__openaccess.blogg.kb.se_bibsamkonsortiet_qa-2Dabout-2Dthe-2Dcancellation-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dagreement-2Dwith-2Delsevier-2Dcommencing-2D1-2Djuly_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=FT6Y0vBz3WEx08gLZXANk7vz4C7myW63fIGs1kaTRHg&e=>
In Germany, the German Rector's conference had already established an
emergency plan to secure the supply of universities with needed articles on
Dec 1, 2016. There were about 60 institutions whose (multi-year) contract
(either direct, or through regional/other consortia) expired by the end of
2016; for a brief period, they lost access, but in mid February 2017
Elsevier re-instated access for those institutions unilaterally (cf.
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/continued-elsevier-access-
in-support-of-german-science
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.elsevier.com_connect_continued-2Delsevier-2Daccess-2Din-2Dsupport-2Dof-2Dgerman-2Dscience&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=SjVWyZdq5GIVLK-O9SE63wpJabshV8kqXtGWv6C_AH8&e=>,
https://www.nature.com/news/german-scientists-regain-access-
to-elsevier-journals-1.21482
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.com_news_german-2Dscientists-2Dregain-2Daccess-2Dto-2Delsevier-2Djournals-2D1.21482&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=pDTc24L6b7wHPu0E5ubkEx3fC98Z74dylTiooFWC2xA&e=>).
During 2017 further institutions, science organisations and regional
consortia announced that they would not renew their Elsevier contracts and
by the end of 2017 the contracts of 200 Institutions (including the 60
mentioned above) had expired. Access for all those institutions continued
(without payment) until July 11 when access was finally cut off after DEAL
had declared the break-down of and suspension of the negotiations with the
publisher (for details cf. https://www.projekt-deal.de/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.projekt-2Ddeal.de_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=RS2PmpkosPrmJOaAzfF2qTGIOeQ7tVWYuRjcVPttFwU&e=>,
https://www.projekt-deal.de/informationen/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.projekt-2Ddeal.de_informationen_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=OafbAiyAQHmko-_42wCBaFRDAKqA3XNEl9OuhZ_8QdE&e=>,
https://www.projekt-deal.de/press-review/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.projekt-2Ddeal.de_press-2Dreview_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=6VOsgsHVNJ2KclvNYE5XzuaJvt8MTnka2TKUKCFy6qc&e=>
).
So Institutions in Germany have lost now access to content published since
January 2017 or since January 2016, depending on the expiry date of their
previous contracts.
Also, they have lost access to all previous published content behind
paywalls that is not covered by previous agreements. This differs from
institution to institution.
In Baden-Württemberg, for example, our regional consortium for 2015-2017
had access to over 2000 Elsevier Journals, but perpetual access rights
2015-2017 have been negotiated only for a subset (archival collection) of
about 1100 titles.
There also remain access rights to our local core collections (locally
subscribed titles) until 2014. Also, DFG has funded a national license for
Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907-2002 which however does
not cover all existing backfile collections (cf.
https://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2006-03-10.4713615682
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nationallizenzen.de_angebote_nlproduct.2006-2D03-2D10.4713615682&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=MwJfUSpbTYbO53iIMHzhKdanGnv_bjEeTiXaWzLI3hI&e=>).
There is also a lot of Elsevier content that is not behind paywalls, e.g.
for the Cell Press titles, access becomes free 12 months after publication,
and all articles published open access (hybrid or gold).
Counter Usage Statistics for July and August 2018 are not yet available, so
it is too early to give an account of the actual effect that the cutoff had
on our usage.
However, in the first 14 days after Elsevier cut off access to our
university, the announced free (and fast) interlibrary loan service for
Elsevier Articles offered to members of the university (staff and
students), cf. https://www.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/suchen-bestellen/e-ressource
n/deal.html
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ub.uni-2Dstuttgart.de_suchen-2Dbestellen_e-2Dressourcen_deal.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=43f9MKMhPUJtLOdXUdPxvchHTeulvn5MwMXxVUE7E8g&e=>,
was taken up by just 11 persons for just 18 articles. For comparison, from
Nov 2016 to Nov 2017 (12 months; Dec 2017 was an outlier) we had 535000
fulltext downloads, of which 86.000 were articles from the current
publication year (2017, pre-published 2018, and articles in press),
turnaways were 20.000.
Boingboing https://boingboing.net/2016/12/15/germany-wide-consortium-of
-res.html
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__boingboing.net_2016_12_15_germany-2Dwide-2Dconsortium-2Dof-2Dres.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=VZsujFh_RMJbPnRgmBkTz9m_aHqW9GW2xWnzrToQaXw&e=>
wrote
"Even so, this kind of boycott was unimaginable until recently -- but the
rise of guerrilla open access sites like Sci-Hub mean that researchers at
participating institutions can continue to access Elsevier papers by other
means." And someone on twitter summarized this as "60 german libraries
announce #Elsevier boycott. Participants will access papers via pirate
libs, like @Sci_Hub WoW!"
Apparently, libraries in Germany enjoy a very revolutionary image ;-) Now,
as highlighted above, we do offer free *and* legal alternatives to access
Elsevier articles, but they seem less popular. Perhaps our users mistake
Sci-hub as short for "Sciencedirect-Hub" and think it's an Elsevier
sponsored service? There is however a range of other perfectly legal routes
for students and academics to quickly get hold of needed articles, as
outlined for example by Björn Brembs in a widely circulated post, "So your
institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?" (
http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/12/so-your-institute-went-
cold-turkey-on-publisher-x-what-now/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bjoern.brembs.net_2016_12_so-2Dyour-2Dinstitute-2Dwent-2Dcold-2Dturkey-2Don-2Dpublisher-2Dx-2Dwhat-2Dnow_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=YrdCnxw-w3_Jl2T4eygyDlr3tw3_RtYya5G6j-_kv48&e=>).
So we do not expect that faculty will start rioting, at least not against
us (although I'd like to see a riot against Elsevier ;-). To the contrary,
16 years ago, at one of those cyclically recurring budget crises, our
university library's faculty advisory board unanimously decided to back our
proposal for a politically motivated "emergency decision" to cancel all of
our Elsevier subscriptions (http://liblicense.crl.edu/Lis
tArchives/0205/msg00127.html
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__liblicense.crl.edu_ListArchives_0205_msg00127.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=H0-37Hmx3QiGl67cX7ZBSSpm3JH-vHa_uZziVliGAsU&e=>),
an Elsevier Boycott that lasted 2 years, triggered a restructuring of our
collection development in general (also for other publishers) and
ultimately led to a new deal for Stuttgart University on a much lower and
more sustainable pricing level. This time, it's again a political decision,
widely backed by faculty, to support the demand of the German Rector's
Conference for a sustainable publish and read model, which means fair
payment for publication and unrestricted availability for readers
afterwards. Also, many prominent scientists that were on the editorial and
advisory boards of Elsevier have resigned in order to protest against the
inacceptable demands of Elsevier and to support the DEAL negotiations, cf.
https://idw-online.de/de/news682623
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idw-2Donline.de_de_news682623&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=krRIUpUkQnpUNJFevukCRvxTKjJY6I_4NocuSz1scFk&s=M2KmlokNznO5eLxAoFP0qWJsbZ1GB8ef4qH5_fU6suA&e=>
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
Am 09.08.2018 um 23:28 schrieb LIBLICENSE:
From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:12:54 +0000
What the article fails to mention is that researchers still retain access
to all content published prior to the ending of the previous deals (so, in
the case of Bibsam, prior to July 1). So, only very recent articles are not
available.
Toby Green
Public Affairs and Communications Directorate
OECD
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