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Texas Universities Reach Historic Deal with Elsevier: TLC Saves Texas Universities Millions Collectively
Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) is pleased to announce that it has concluded negotiations with Elsevier, and all TLCUA members have new agreements for subscription journal access. In 2019, 44 public and private university campuses across Texas joined together to form TLCUA to think creatively about access to faculty publications and the sustainability of journal subscriptions. TLCUA has negotiated with Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific journals, including The Lancet and Cell and over 2,500 other journals covering topics in medicine, biology, psychology, engineering, business and more. The TLCUA effort aligns with other libraries across academia that have sought to evolve the relationship between libraries and publishers and find new ways to thrive together.
All TLCUA members received a discount on journal subscriptions–some as high as 30%–while still maintaining significant amounts of access to journals and combined, realized millions in savings annually. Beyond initial cost savings, Elsevier agreed to a maximum annual increase of 2% over the course of the license agreement, with some years as low as 0%, which is significantly lower than industry standard.
John Sharp, Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, said, “Since the beginning of the negotiations, the administration and faculty have stood behind the libraries in this effort. We are proud that so many institutions in Texas came together to realize cost savings and increase access not only in Texas but around the world.”
TLCUA certainly had ambitious goals to negotiate sustainable pricing for strained library budgets in higher education, but also made progress on its other goals of improving access to scholarship and providing authors with greater control over their published work over time.
TLCUA and Elsevier have agreed to partner on a pilot project to revert ownership of journal articles back to original authors—and not just those at TLCUA-member institutions. Currently, authors transfer copyright of their work in exchange for that work being published. This pilot will provide for rights to go back to authors after a period of time that will be collaboratively determined with Elsevier. A subset of Elsevier journals will be chosen to study the impact of the copyright reversion pilot for authors and its applicability more broadly to STEM (scientific, technical, engineering and medical) publishers.
Further, all TLCUA-member authors who choose to publish their work under an open access license will have access to discounted author publication charges (APCs). TLCUA also negotiated a license template that removed non-disclosure terms, restrictions on sharing usage data, and 44-year-old limitations on interlibrary loans (i.e., CONTU Guidelines) to expand library collaboration and improve how libraries can share information on journal usage.
“We worked very hard with Elsevier leadership and negotiators to come to an agreement that aligns the values and priorities of our members and those held by Elsevier,” says lead negotiator and open access advocate Jeffrey Spies of 221B Consulting. “I am particularly excited about the copyright pilot project. Copyright is an often-overlooked ingredient in securing a more open scholarship, and the library community has a real opportunity here: to work with authors to share their work openly because it will once again be their work.”
Along with Spies, the team negotiating with Elsevier consisted of faculty, library leaders and librarians with collections expertise representing the diverse membership of TLCUA. They are David Carlson, former Dean of University Libraries at Texas A&M University; Kelly Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President for Library Services at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Deborah Hathaway, Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarian at the University of Dallas; Ian Knabe, Head of Acquisitions and Resource Sharing at the University of Houston; Asheley Landrum, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University; Vagheesh Narasimhan, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas Austin; Richard Nollan, former Dean of Libraries at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center; Alexia Thompson-Young, Assistant Director of Scholarly Resources at the University of Texas Austin; Charles Weaver, Department Chair and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University; and Ginger Williams, Head Acquisitions Administrative Librarian at Texas State University.
Initial workshops to define the parameters of the pilot project will begin soon. TLCUA has begun exploring their next negotiation priorities and other projects that can benefit from state-wide collaboration. Sara Lowman, TLCUA Chair and Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University, is enthusiastic about the future of TLCUA. “The Coalition demonstrated what can be done when Texas institutions aligned by their principles work together. We have big plans,” she said.
About TLCUA
TLCUA represents more than 660,000 students and 44,000 faculty. This consortium is one of the largest and most diverse library consortia in the United States. Faculty in the Coalition member libraries account for 7.2% of all research output in the United States and about 6% of all U.S. research published by Elsevier. The economic impact of Coalition members is significant with annual expenditures exceeding $275 million.
Current TLCUA members are:
- Angelo State University
- Baylor University
- Lamar University
- Prairie View A&M University
- Rice University
- Sam Houston State University
- Stephen F. Austin University
- Sul Ross State University
- Tarleton State University
- Texas A&M International University
- Texas A&M University (College Station)
- Texas A&M University-Central Texas
- Texas A&M University-Commerce
- Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- Texas A&M University-Kingsville
- Texas A&M University-San Antonio
- Texas A&M University-Texarkana
- Texas State University
- Texas Tech University (Lubbock)
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock
- The TMC Library
- The University of Texas at Arlington
- The University of Texas at Austin
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- The University of Texas at El Paso
- The University of Texas Permian Basin
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- The University of Texas at San Antonio
- The University of Texas at Tyler
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
- University of Dallas
- University of Houston
- University of Houston Clear Lake
- University of Houston Downtown
- University of North Texas
- University of North Texas Health Sciences Center
- West Texas A&M University
UpToDate Registration/Verification Link for Wi-Fi access
The Library has added a new UpToDate registration/re-verification link on the Library’s home page to use with registration and 90-day re-verification assistance from a Wi-Fi network.
If you plan to access UpToDate from a device using campus Wi-Fi, you will need to register for a free UpToDate account using one of the following methods required for initial registration and 90 day campus re-verification:
- UpToDate through EPIC
- UpToDate through EZProxy (i.e. any non-UTSW Wi-Fi connection)
- UpToDate through VPN or Citrix
- On-Campus wired workstation
AccessAPN Arrives
The Library is excited to announce that UT Southwestern now officially subscribes to AccessAPN, offered by McGraw Hill Medical in partnership with Sigma Theta Tau.
If you are enrolled in an APN program, then the content in AccessAPN aligns with the curricula of Advanced Practice Nursing programs, including those for Nursing Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Doctors of Nursing Practice. Of course, these resources are available for all UT Southwestern nursing staff – in acute care to ambulatory care and include the following:
- Books – more than 40 eBooks on a variety of topics, including clinical information, EBP, informatics, leadership, professional development, and self-care/personal development
- Cases – materials for short, targeted case-based learning
- Review Questions – thousands of Q&A for board exam preparation
More information about AccessAPN is available from McGraw Hill, including a Brief Overview of AccessAPN – YouTube, as well as how to set up a MyAccess Profile account to access content remotely and unlock personal account features (e.g., review questions, cases).
Don’t Forget to Reauthenticate Your MyAccess Profiles Every 90 Days
The MyAccess profile is free to create and available on all of McGraw Hill’s medical Access platforms. This profile creates a personalized experience by unlocking the ability to bookmark content, interact with review Q&A and cases, and receive alerts about new content additions.
Another benefit of a MyAccess profile is the ability to go directly to the site (e.g., www.AccessMedicine.com) to access it remotely.
If you see a message that your remote access has expired, connect to the UTSW subscription either from on campus or while using VPN or EZproxy and then log into your MyAccess profile.
Discover Your Profile Potential!
Your name is foundational to being discovered and recognized: it establishes your unique professional profile, which stays with you throughout your research and academic career. However, author ambiguity can and does occur, and these name variants can be a key concern when calculating your author level metrics.
ORCID, Scopus Author Identifier, Publons, Web of Science Research ID, SciENcv? With so many resources to help authors manage their profiles, where do you start? While there is overlap between the various resources, each one has its own functionality and unique features. Based on your research focus, you may want to maintain more than one profile.
The Author Profiles Guide provides an overview of select author profiles and suggested steps to manage your profile. Questions? Please complete our Ask Us form.
Explore JoVE Unlimited
Our JoVE Unlimited subscription includes more than 14,000 videos across multiple STEM disciplines and counting. In 2021 alone, JoVE produced 1,085 new high-quality videos demonstrating scientific experiments and concepts for research and education. In 2022, JoVE Unlimited will be adding:
- JoVE Core video textbooks which includes Statistics, Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Cell Biology.
- New JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments: Cancer Research collections, which includes Gastrointestinal Cancers, Head and Neck Cancers, and Urinary Tract Cancers.
- More than 1,000 videos on advanced research methods in JoVE Journal.
Prepare with BoardVitals
Need to practice for your board exams? Consider using BoardVitals, an effective and powerful board review tool that includes high-quality review questions. With BoardVitals, users may prepare for a variety of board examinations, including the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Step 2 (CK and CS), and Step 3, as well as the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN). The resource allows for decreased study time, with everything organized under one platform and the best questions to study listed up front.
Eligible users include UT Southwestern faculty, staff, students, residents/fellows, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Users will need to register for a new account using their @utsouthwestern.edu email address as their username. Once the account is set up, users may create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources.
PubMed Central Article Datasets available via ODP cloud
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently announced that two PubMed Central article datasets are openly available via Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). This benefits researchers utilizing text mining methodology or other types of secondary analysis.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). For nearly two decades NLM has supported the retrieval and download of machine-readable open access journal articles through the PMC Open Archives Initiative (PMC-OAI) and FTP (file transfer protocol). To enhance access, these datasets are now also available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Registry of Open Data as part of AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). Benefits to working with the datasets in the cloud include access to uncompressed individual full-text article files in XML and plain text as well as faster download and transfer speeds.
PMC Article Datasets housed on the AWS include:
- The PMC Open Access (OA) Subset includes all articles and preprints in PMC with a machine-readable Creative Commons license that allows reuse.
- The Author Manuscript Dataset includes accepted author manuscripts collected under a funder policy in PMC and made available in machine-readable formats for text mining.
Full details of the datasets are available on the PMC Article Datasets page.Getting started documentation for using the datasets is available via AWS. Direct questions or concerns regarding the datasets to pubmedcentral@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
TexShare databases provide wide variety of resources
In addition to its extensive medical/health sciences collection of journals, books and databases, UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center participates in the TexShare Databases Program (coordinated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission). These databases provide access to more than 27,000 journals and magazines, over 171,000 ebooks, and over 15 million images, videos, and interactive resources in both medical/health sciences and non-medical/health sciences disciplines, such as business, career resources, education, genealogy, general studies, law, general studies, and much more! To access, click on TexShare Databases under Popular Links on the Library’s home page.