CSU authors are *paying* Elsevier to make their articles open access using grant money. And CSU is paying for ~600 journal subscriptions for reading access using state funds.
Some institutions have "read-and-publish" deals with publishers. Basically, if a CSU publishes an article in that publisher's journal, then it will automatically become open access.
Sometimes authors approach CSU/library to ask if they can get funding to make their paper open access. But there's no money left in the budget for that. Answer is always "no."
1. Sustainable pricing 2. Open access for CSU faculty authored works 3. Authors' retain copyright (Creative Commons licenses!) 4. Text mining for research purposes 5. Agreement duration (elimination of multiple-year agreements)
Presenter said there are usage statistics of specific journals. Nature ones are very expensive, and library needs certain download counts to justify paying that money.
My comment: Yes. Students can always get the papers elsewhere, contact the authors, or honestly, practice civil disobedience and use Sci-Hub (audience laughs). I don't want my taxpayer and tuition money to go into such a corrupt industry.
Anthropology librarian: I'm torn, but because the costs keep going up, we have no room at all for new content. And if we keep negotiating with Elsevier, the situation will never get better. So I'm okay losing new access.
Clarification: Apparently even if we don't renew the contract, we don't lose the current access to journals that we don't have. We just don't get access to newly published articles.
Question: if we cancel the contract, what are you going to spend the money on?
Library dean: There are soo many things we'd like to buy because we haven't had any increase in funding. More likely we'd end with a partial Elsevier contract, not full.
Education faculty: I am deeply troubled by the major ethical flaws/etc. by Elsevier. They're not just double dipping, they're triple and quadruple dripping.
Education faculty: I respect the UC's decision to walk away.
The problem is that faculty are "graded" on their research impact by published articles. We need to look at the impact on how faculty are assessed/measured, and whether they are incentivized to make their research #OpenAccess so it has a larger impact.
Next steps: there will be a survey for unmoderated feedback that will go to the entire CSU.
Elsevier negotiations are proprietary, but updates will be on the library website.