The State University of New York (SUNY) has taken steps to “unbundle” its big deal with Elsevier publisher. The negotiations, which spanned about eighteen months, was led by the SUNY Libraries Consortium (SLC) on behalf of the university. SUNY is the biggest comprehensive university in the United States, with over 64 campuses. According to SPARC1 “big deal” cancellation tracking website, this is one of the six “big deal” journal packages cancellation by United States universities in 2020. Other universities in the United States. Other universities in the United States that have cancelled their “big deal” journal and database subscription with academic publishers are: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Idaho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Iowa State University, and Illinois Institute of Technology.
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- https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/