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Collection Review 2020: Resources

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In the headlines

The Cornoavirus (COVID-19) outbreak highlights serious deficiencies in scholarly communication (March 5, 2020)
UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (February 27, 2020)
swissuniversities defines relationships with publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley for 2020 (December 17, 2019)
University Library cancelling $1.42 million in journal subscription packages (December 5, 2019) – University of Saskatchewan
University of Iowa Cuts Journal Subscriptions (June 5, 2019)
Deal or No Deal | Periodicals Price Survey 2019 (April 4, 2019)
The Beginning of the End for the 'Big Deal'? (March 27, 2019)
Why does it cost millions to access publicly funded research papers? Blame the paywall (March 9, 2019)
The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back. (March 1, 2019)
Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research (May 26, 2017)

Research

Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein, and Philippe Mongeon, “The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era,” PLoS ONE 10(2015):6 accessed March 2, 2020, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.012750