<div dir="ltr">In the latest skirmish between academia and publishers over the costs of academic journals, the University of Konstanz in Germany has broken off negotiations over a new licensing agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. The publisher’s prices are too high, said university Rector Ulrich Rüdiger in a statement, and the institution “will no longer keep up with this aggressive pricing policy and will not support such an approach.”<div>
<br><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/03/german-university-tells-elsevier-no-deal">http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/03/german-university-tells-elsevier-no-deal</a></div></div>