UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
One of the reasons you are probably seeing this happen are budget cuts. Major university systems have seen their funding be cut by state governments. Elsevier charges an obscene amount of money to access information that is often publicly funded.<p>If money were no object, you'd probably see less university systems rejecting Elsevier. But money is becoming a bigger issue.<p>Ultimately, this is starting to put major university systems in line with individual users, and we should see an explosion of open-access information in the next decade.<p>Remember when Harvard University said it can't afford journal publishers' price: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-univ...</a>