Many university libraries are dealing with the same issues as Texas Tech. In October 2019 MIT Libraries, the MIT Committee on the Library System and the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT's Research released its principle based framework for negotiations with scholarly publishers.
The core principles of an MIT Framework for publisher contracts are:
- No author will be required to waive any institutional or funder open access policy to publish in any of the publisher’s journals.
- No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights.
- Publishers will directly deposit scholarly articles in institutional repositories immediately upon publication or will provide tools/mechanisms that facilitate immediate deposit.
- Publishers will provide computational access to subscribed content as a standard part of all contracts, with no restrictions on non-consumptive, computational analysis of the corpus of subscribed content.
- Publishers will ensure the long-term digital preservation and accessibility of their content through participation in trusted digital archives.
- Institutions will pay a fair and sustainable price to publishers for value-added services, based on transparent and cost-based pricing models.
Texas Tech University Libraries proudly endorses this framework.
Full list of endorsing institutions: http://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/framework/
MIT's Elsevier fact sheet
