Publishing Partnerships and Negotiation Updates

The Libraries is continually renewing and negotiating contracts with multiple vendors to support scholarship across platforms. Per our Strategic Plan and newly adopted resolutions, we are committed to developing partnerships that are aligned with our mission and values.

We strive for a transparent process to keep all stakeholders informed about negotiations and potential changes that may impact scholarship.

For questions regarding sustainable scholarship and negotiations, contact SustainableScholarship@uw.edu.

Contract Negotiation Updates

Elsevier

Publisher of books and journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

• UW Libraries will continue to maintain access to Elsevier journals on ScienceDirect. The contract has been renewed until December 31, 2022.

• UW Elsevier Negotiating Team has been actively meeting with Elsevier representatives since mid-October. As of December 30, 2019, the Negotiating Team successfully reached an agreement that supports the UW Libraries Negotiation Priorities.

• The UW Libraries thanks the UW faculty for the Negotiating Team and Alternative Access Committee for their service during this negotiation.

• Prior updates: Preparations and coordination between UW Libraries and UW Administration have been ongoing since March.
• In May, UW Faculty Senate voted unanimously to approve a Class C Resolution, sponsored by the Faculty Council on University Libraries, expressing its support for the UW Libraries Licensing Principles and negotiating  priorities.
• Four members of the UW faculty joined the Libraries negotiating team on June 4th.
• The Alternative Access Committee was formed with representatives from the UW Libraries and UW Faculty to prepare for any potential changes in access that could occur.

Other Publishers

Contracts with the following publishers are consortia agreements have been renewed or extended.  The UW Libraries is continuing to work with the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the other libraries in the consortium agreement on negotiations and will publish updates here as available.

• SpringerNature - publisher of books, journals, and databases. The brands under the SpringerNature group include: Springer, Nature Research, BioMed Central, Palgrave MacMillan, Scientific American, Apress, Adis, J.B. Metzler, MacMillan Education, and Springer Healtcare. Renewed through 2022

• Sage Publishing - publisher of books, journals, reference content, and databases. Sage Publishing also include: CQ Press, Corwin, Adam Matthew, and Learning Matters. Renewed through 2022.

• Cambridge University Press - publisher of books, journals, and reference content.  The contract ended on December 31, 2018 and was extended for a year to expire December 31,2019.