University of California's break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good
- Written by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires.Eric Chan/Flickr, CC BYThe University of California recently made international headlines when it canceled its subscription with scientific journal publisher Elsevier. The twittersphere lit up. And Elsevier’s parent...
