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<div class="gmail-container gmail-mainContainer"><div class="gmail-row gmail-marginLg"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12 gmail-col-sm-9 gmail-containerRightColumn gmail-borderless"><div class="gmail-page-body gmail-news-highlight-body"><div id="gmail-content_text"><p class="gmail-date_and_place"></p><p class="gmail-date_and_place">Il Centro internazionale di Fisica teorica Abdun Salam con sede a Trieste si aggiunge alle altre istituzioni che hanno deciso di non rinnovare il contratto con Elsevier, segue comunicato stampa<br></p><p class="gmail-date_and_place">07/06/2018 - Trieste</p><p>ICTP
has decided to cancel its subscription to Elsevier's bundle of science
journals after negotiations with the publisher failed to produce an
acceptable solution for the Centre.</p>
<p>The growing costs of the contract, which has been in effect since
2001, did not represent a good value for money, according to ICTP
Director Fernando Quevedo, who made the decision after lengthy
discussions with ICTP scientists.</p>
<p>"ICTP remains committed to offering the highest level of research
support to its scientists, many of whom come from countries that lack
resources such as access to top science journals," he said. However, he
added, the costs of the subscription contract with Elsevier were
becoming unsustainable, and negotiations with the publisher failed to
produce a satisfactory result. "The proposed new contract did not allow
the flexibility that a relatively small institute like ICTP requires to
strategically distribute its budget," explained Quevedo.</p>
<p>Quevedo assured the ICTP community that the Centre, through its Marie
Curie Library, would do its best to minimize the impact of the Elsevier
cancellation. He noted that ICTP will keep post-termination access
rights to 53 journals that it has historically subscribed to, for
contents published between 1995 and 2017.</p>
<p>Scientists with further questions can contact the Marie Curie Library information desk. The Library has prepared a <a href="https://library.ictp.it/researchers-toolbox/alternative-full-text-sources.aspx">web page listing alternative, legal, full-text sources</a> for science papers. Scientists can also use the Library's <a href="https://library.ictp.it/researchers-toolbox/request-an-article.aspx">document delivery service</a>
to request papers. The Library will monitor the trend of requests to
measure the effects of the Elsevier cancellation. Any
comments/suggestions are welcome.</p>
<p>Science institutes and universities around the world have been
steadily staging revolts against the high costs of large publishers'
bundled journal packages by cancelling their subscriptions. <a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/">The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)</a>, which advocates for open access to research output, tracks these cancellations.<br><br>Fonte: <a href="https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/6/elsevier.aspx">https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/6/elsevier.aspx</a></p><p><br></p><p>Saluti,</p><p>Paola<br></p></div><div class="gmail-clearZero"> </div><div id="gmail-fb_like"></div>
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