From: Colleen Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:37:34 +0000

**with apologies for cross-posting**

The Max Planck Society, one of the world’s largest research performing
organizations, counting 14,000 scientists who publish 12K new research
articles a year—around 1500 of which in Elsevier journals, has
mandated the Max Planck Digital Library to discontinue the Society’s
Elsevier subscription when the current agreement expires on December
31, 2018.

With this move the Society joins nearly 200 universities and research
institutions in Germany who have already cancelled their individual
agreements with Elsevier and affirmed their support of the
national-level Projekt DEAL negotiations seeking transformative
agreements as a strategy to drive large scale transition of scholarly
publishing to open access.

As no sustainable offer meeting DEAL’s fundamental criteria for
transformation has been forthcoming, negotiations are suspended and
Elsevier cut off access last July. Despite the immediate implication
of lack of access to new Elsevier content from January 1, 2019, the
Max Planck Society’s researchers and highest level administration
provided their full support in the decision. “DEAL is fully in line
with the objectives of the OA2020 Initiative, which is strongly
supported by the Max Planck Society,” emphasized MPS President Martin
Stratmann.

Read the full press release here: https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/505

Colleen Campbell
Open Access 2020 Initiative
Max Planck Digital Library
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+49 160 9725 1536
@ColleenCampbe11

https://oa2020.org
https://oa2020.org/Executive-Summary.pdf