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The #UMontana is cancelling more than 5,000 #journals from #Elsevier, #TaylorAndFrancis, and #Wiley, forced by "rising journal…#prices and a stagnant #budget…The library has seen a $700,000 reduction in money received since fiscal year 2020."
https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/mansfield-library-at-um-set-to-cut-largest-e-journal-packages
#Academia #Cancellations #Libraries #Publishers #ScholComm #Universities
@academicchatter
Mansfield Library at UM set to cut largest e-journal packages
Cuts are coming to the Mansfield Library’s collections to address a more than $300,000 funding gap.When University of Montana students access the library’s onliKECI
Some of the #publishers fighting #BookBans and celebrating #PrideMonth are also suing the @internetarchive. "If anything, Pride Month should be the moment in which publishers join librarians in their efforts to make as much knowledge as available as possible to as many people as possible. #OpenAccess is thus an essential tool in the fight for #LGBTQIA+ rights and minority rights in general."
https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/book-bans-pride-month-open-access/release/1
The nonprofit #InternetArchive is appealing a judgment that threatens the future of all #libraries.
Big #publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and #control of digital #books, opening new paths for #censorship.
Please, Internet, Do Your Thing!
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
Battle for Libraries
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.Fight for the Future