<story><title>Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals</title><url>http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/communiques/20160506-DC-annulation-springer-va.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jo909</author><text>&amp;quot;UdeM Libraries will renew access to 150 of the 2,266 journals included in this collection. The price we will pay for these individual subscriptions in 2016 is the same we were willing to pay for the entire collection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So Springer still gets all the moneys they could have gotten anyway.&lt;p&gt;I totally understand why the library has to make such a compromise, but that&amp;#x27;s not a very strong bargaining position.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals</title><url>http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/communiques/20160506-DC-annulation-springer-va.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Overtonwindow</author><text>I wish universities would take the lead in forcing open the journal monopoly. It would be really great if a major university like Stanford or Harvard said to its professors: You may publish anywhere, but you must also publish it for free to the academic community. Until a major university or five takes a stand on this, the rest of us must continue to fight.</text></comment>