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University of California's showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good

  • Written by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
For now, it's going to be trickier for the University of California community to access some academic journals.Michelle/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

This month, academic publisher Elsevier shuttered the University of California’s online access to current journal articles. It’s the latest move in the high stakes standoff between Elsevier, the worl...

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