Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

Researchers at German institutions that have let their Elsevier subscriptions lapse while negotiating a new deal are hitting the paywall for the publisher’s most recent articles around 10,000 times a day, according to Elsevier — which publishes more than 400,000 papers each year. But at least some German libraries involved in negotiating access to Elsevier say they are making huge savings without a subscription, while still providing any articles their academics request. But negotiations with Elsevier seem to be more fraught: the talks previously collapsed with Germany, Hungary and Sweden, and have been extended with Norway and the University of California library system in the United States (the latter two still have access, for now).

Source: www.nature.com