Editing Elsevier (section)

=== United States ===
In March 2018, [[Florida State University]]'s faculty elected to cancel its $2 million subscription to a bundle of several journals. Starting in 2019, it will instead buy access to titles'' à la carte''.<ref name="sparc" />

In February 2019, the [[University of California]] said it would terminate subscriptions "in [a] push for open access to publicly funded research".<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly|title=UC terminates subscriptions with world's largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research|date=28 February 2019|website=www.universityofcalifornia.edu|access-date=6 March 2019|archive-date=5 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305182059/https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2019-03-university-california-terminates-subscriptions-elsevier.html|title=University of California terminates subscriptions to Elsevier|last=Yirka|first=Bob|date=4 March 2019|website=phys.org|access-date=6 March 2019|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044640/https://phys.org/news/2019-03-university-california-terminates-subscriptions-elsevier.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AT 2019-03">{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/uc-elsevier-publisher/583909/|title=The Real Cost of Knowledge|last=Zhang|first=Sarah|date=4 March 2019|work=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=6 March 2019|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043402/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/uc-elsevier-publisher/583909/|url-status=live}}</ref> After months of negotiations over open access to research by UC researchers and prices for subscriptions to Elsevier journals, a press release by the UC Office of the President issued Thursday, 28 February 2019 stated "Under Elsevier's proposed terms, the publisher would have charged UC authors large publishing fees on top of the university's multimillion dollar subscription, resulting in much greater cost to the university and much higher profits for Elsevier."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-uc-split-publishing-giant-elsevier|title=Why UC split with publishing giant Elsevier|last1=Kell|first1=Gretchen|last2=Berkeley|first2=U. C.|date=6 March 2019|website=University of California|access-date=12 June 2019|archive-date=28 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528210826/https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-uc-split-publishing-giant-elsevier|url-status=live}}</ref> On 10 July 2019, Elsevier began restricting access to all new paywalled articles and approximately 5% of paywalled articles published before 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/10/university-of-california-loses-access-to-new-journal-articles-published-by-elsevier-after-research-access-fight|title=University of California loses access to new journal articles published by Elsevier after research access fight|website=statnews.com|access-date=10 July 2019|date=10 July 2019|archive-date=10 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710200028/https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/10/university-of-california-loses-access-to-new-journal-articles-published-by-elsevier-after-research-access-fight/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2020, the [[University of North Carolina]] elected not to renew its bundled Elsevier package, citing a failure "to provide an affordable path".<ref>{{cite web|title=Upcoming Elsevier Cancellations|work=UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries |date=9 April 2020 |url=https://library.unc.edu/2020/04/upcoming-elsevier-cancellations|publisher=University of North Carolina|access-date=9 April 2020|archive-date=10 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410022737/https://library.unc.edu/2020/04/upcoming-elsevier-cancellations/|url-status=live |last1=Panitch |first1=Judy }}</ref> Rather than extend the license, which was stated to cost $2.6 million annually, the university decided to continue subscribing to a smaller set of individual journals. The [[State University of New York]] Libraries Consortium also announced similar outcome,<ref>{{Cite news|publisher=Inside Highered|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/04/13/suny-cancels-big-deal-elsevier|title=SUNY Cancels Big Deal With Elsevier|date=13 April 2020|access-date=16 April 2020|archive-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921002922/https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/04/13/suny-cancels-big-deal-elsevier|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|publisher=SUNY Libraries Consortium (SLC)|title=State University of New York Steps Away From the "Big Deal" with Elsevier|url=https://slcny.libguides.com/slc/elsevier2020update|date=7 April 2020|access-date=16 April 2020|archive-date=18 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101851/http://slcny.libguides.com/slc/elsevier2020update|url-status=live}}</ref> with the help of estimates from [[Unpaywall Journals]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=18 April 2020|title=SUNY Negotiates New, Modified Agreement with Elsevier - Libraries News Center University at Buffalo Libraries|url=https://library.buffalo.edu/news/2020/04/07/suny-negotiates-new-modified-agreement-with-elsevier/|website=library.buffalo.edu|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206111125/https://library.buffalo.edu/news/2020/04/07/suny-negotiates-new-modified-agreement-with-elsevier/|url-status=live}}</ref> Similarly, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] announced in June 2020 that it would no longer pay for access to new Elsevier articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611|access-date=11 June 2020|title=MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations|date=11 June 2020 |archive-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922192025/https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=McKenzie|first1=Lindsay|title=MIT Ends Negotiations with Elsevier|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/12/mit-ends-negotiations-elsevier|access-date=12 June 2020|work=Inside Higher Ed|date=12 June 2020|archive-date=12 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612153424/https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/12/mit-ends-negotiations-elsevier|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022 Elsevier and the [[University of Michigan]] established an agreement to support authors who wish to publish open access.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of Michigan|url=https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/university-of-michigan|access-date=16 February 2022|website=www.elsevier.com|archive-date=16 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216111934/https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/university-of-michigan|url-status=live}}</ref>