MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
Here is the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.mit.edu&#x2F;scholarly&#x2F;publishing&#x2F;framework&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.mit.edu&#x2F;scholarly&#x2F;publishing&#x2F;framework&#x2F;</a><p>It requires that:<p>1. No author will be required to waive any institutional or funder open access policy to publish in any of the publisher’s journals.<p>2. No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights.<p>3. Publishers will directly deposit scholarly articles in institutional repositories immediately upon publication or will provide tools&#x2F;mechanisms that facilitate immediate deposit.<p>4. Publishers will provide computational access to subscribed content as a standard part of all contracts, with no restrictions on non-consumptive, computational analysis of the corpus of subscribed content.<p>5. Publishers will ensure the long-term digital preservation and accessibility of their content through participation in trusted digital archives.<p>6. Institutions will pay a fair and sustainable price to publishers for value-added services, based on transparent and cost-based pricing models.<p>Not surprising that Elsevier couldn&#x27;t meet these requirements. #2 in particular seems antithetical to Elsevier&#x27;s philosophy.<p>What was surprising was the number of institutions which had signed onto the framework - my alma mater included. I&#x27;m curious how many of these still have an Elsevier contract.