From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:56:04 -0400

Worth a detour.  How many swallows make a summer?

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread

"Bold efforts to push academic publishing towards an open-access model
are gaining steam. Negotiators from libraries and university consortia
across Europe are sharing tactics on how to broker new kinds of
contracts that could see more articles appear outside paywalls. And
inspired by the results of a stand-off in Germany, they increasingly
declare that if they don’t like what publishers offer, they will
refuse to pay for journal access at all. On 16 May, a Swedish
consortium became the latest to say that it wouldn’t renew its
contract, with publishing giant Elsevier."

[SNIP]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0