The access to current issues of Elsevier-Journals has been turned off  [13.07.18]

The access to the current issues of Elsevier-journals via ScienceDirect has been turned off today.

All employees and students of the University of Hohenheim can order the latest articles of Elsevier magazines and journals by means of an inter-library loan through the KIM. To do so, kindly use the Inter-library loan form or e-mail fernleihe-elsevier@uni-hohenheim.de. You can also find more information as well as an overview of the content you can continue to access (archive titles) at: https://kim.uni-hohenheim.de/deal

Against the background of the hitherto fruitless DEAL negotiations between the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and Elsevier, the State Rectors’ Conference unanimously resolved at the end of June 2017 to terminate the Elsevier contract for the entire state on 31.12.2017. The Elsevier licence for Hohenheim expired on 31.12.2017.

With regard to the positive progress of the DEAL negotiations, Elsevier has not terminated access to magazines in the past 6 months. There continues to be access to magazines through ScienceDirect. Unfortunately at the latest negotiation discussions on 3.07.2018, the project group established that Elsevier continues to refuse to respond to the demands of the German Rectors’ Conference in relation to a future DEAL contract. Elsevier disputes this in spite of a jointly formulated Memorandum of Understanding and points out that it has submitted an attractive offer.

From the point of view of the HRK, there is therefore no basis for negotiating a transition contract for the second half of 2018 and the HRK felt obliged to once again interrupt talks with Elsevier.In response to this, Elsevier stated in its latest letter to the Rectors of the universities concerned that it would execute the cancellation in the next few days and prevent access to the latest editions of the e-journals via ScienceDirect. 

The German DEAL project partners are not alone in their approach. The Swedish University Consortium Bisam (85 universities) has also terminated its licence contract with Elsevier with a negotiating approach similar to DEAL. Elsevier has therefore also terminated access to magazines by Swedish universities.

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