
A Global Transition to Open Access May Be Stalemated by Standoffs between Publishers and University Libraries
On the background of Springer Nature’s stalled stock market launch, global journal publishers, such as Elsevier, could be digging in their heels in their negotiations with university associations over periodical subscription deals, as revenues and profit growth rates sag, while arguably slowing the expansion of the Open Access sector. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. A closer look into the annual report for 2017 of RELX Group, to which Elsevier, a globally operating journal publisher belongs, reveals that while its scientific, technical and medical analytics business remains the most important source of its revenue, its growth rate was found to […]