University of California defiant as Elsevier cuts journal access

US’ top producer of research papers hopes stance will force major gains in open access

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July 11, 2019

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by r.... on July 14, 2019 - 5:37pm

UC leads where others will follow. High time to show Elsevier the limits of their greed!

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