Abstract
THE UNIVERSITY of California is threatening to boycott Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals in hopes of quashing the publisher’s attempt to raise subscription prices. NPG counters that UC is distorting the facts. “UC libraries are confronting an impending crisis in providing access” to NPG journals, says a June 4 letter sent to UC divisional chairs and faculty by California Digital Library (CDL) Executive Director Laine Farley and colleagues. CDL coordinates shared library collections for UC campuses. The letter says NPG plans to increase the price of UC’s license for Nature and affiliated journals by 400%, or more than $1 million per year, beginning in 2011. It adds that “NPG has made their ultimatum with full knowledge that our libraries are under economic distress” as a result of the state of California’s severe budget deficit. In a June 9 statement, NPG responded that CDL has benefited from “a very large, unsustainable discount for many years, ...
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