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French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:03AM   
from the do-they-get-their-money-back dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/52208/title/French-Universities-Cancel-Subscriptions-to-Springer-Journals/

French research organizations and universities have cancelled their subscriptions to Springer journals, due to an impasse in fee negotiations between the publisher and Couperin.org, a national consortium representing more than 250 academic institutions in France.

After more than a year of discussions, Couperin.org and SpringerNature, which publishes more than 2,000 scholarly journals belonging to Springer, Nature, and BioMedCentral, have failed to reach an agreement on subscriptions for its Springer journals. The publisher’s proposal includes an increase in prices, which the consortium refuses to accept.

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• Re:Value (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:41PM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:41PM (#662632) Journal

  So you are speaking from the Ivory land of spherical cows and frictionless objects?

  More an Ivory tower with gates of horn (Odyssey, book 19, lines 560–569), and assuming perfect information and zero transaction costs in a fair competitive market. Der Springer is a horse. And not spherical at all.

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