From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:19:18 -0400

"UC’s publisher negotiations have since been closely followed around
the globe. In the United States, UC’s actions and stance, particularly
with Elsevier, have prompted a national conversation about how
research institutions can restructure their publisher contracts in the
service of OA publishing. While UC has not yet secured a
transformative agreement with Elsevier, the university has built a
strong internal coalition around taking a principled stance for a
sustainable OA business model. In April 2019, UC secured its first
transformative agreement, with Cambridge University Press, and
continues to have productive conversations with a variety of
commercial, native-OA and society publishers.

"In response to the growing demand for information, UC has launched a
negotiation toolkit that aims to serve as a North American framework
for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing
industry. In charting its course, UC was greatly enabled by the
various global efforts, particularly in Europe, to leverage publisher
negotiations to effect a transition towards OA. With this toolkit, UC
hopes to similarly enable more institutions in the United States and
Canada to reinvest subscription funds into open access by rethinking
and restructuring publisher agreements."  See:

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/negotiating-with-scholarly-journal-publishers-a-toolkit/