Libraries With Tight Budgets Renew Complaints About Elsevier's Online Pricing

By DAN CARNEVALE

A growing number of colleges in the country are rebelling against a major publishing company's rates and terms for online science journals. Some of the institutions are even cutting back on their subscriptions to avoid having to pay for a "bundle" of the publications, which university libraries on tight budgets say they...

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