No Deal With Elsevier

It may be hard to remember but UC has an ongoing dispute with academic publisher Elsevier. According to Inside Higher Ed, the U of North Carolina is following in UC's wake:

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will not renew its bundled journal subscription deal with publisher Elsevier. Elaine Westbrooks, university librarian at UNC Chapel Hill, tweeted yesterday that the two parties failed to reach a deal after more than a year of negotiation. The institution’s current subscription package with instant access to around 2,000 journals is set to expire April 30... UNC Chapel Hill joins a growing list of institutions that have decided to end their big deals with publishers. The University of California system notably dropped its Elsevier contract last year as part of a push to promote open-access publishing...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/04/10/unc-chapel-hill-cancels-big-deal-elsevier