<div dir="ltr">As to Elsevier's "special deals" for mandating institutions: sensible institutions will politely inform Elsevier that they are, as always, quite prepared to negotiate with publishers about subscription pricing ("Big Deals") -- <b><font color="#ff0000">but definitely not about university internal record-keeping and archiving policy, which is none of publishers' business. </font></b><div>
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