Tag: Research access

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Coalition of Texas Universities reaches agreement with Elsevier

For over a year, Texas State University has been an active participant in the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (Texas Coalition), a group of 43 academic institutions in Texas seeking to find sustainable solutions to the rising costs of subscriptions to academic journals and to improve relationships between academic institutions and publishers. We are …

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Texas State scholars may notice journal access changes in 2021

Across the country, research libraries are faced with difficult decisions that will impact their campuses’ access to scholarly research articles found in subscription databases and journals. While many academic library budgets have remained stagnant, publishers have consistently raised their subscription fees 5 to 7 percent each year and larger publishers have priced their subscriptions beyond what is sustainable for universities to maintain. Even large research universities like UC Berkeley and others have had to walk away from subscription access to research …

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