"Three more U.K. universities have confirmed they are not taking subscriptions to Elsevier journals, with one Russell Group institution hitting out at the "financially unsustainable" terms of the nationally agreed deal. In a statement published Jan. 27, the University of Sheffield revealed it was signing up to three-year deals with Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley and Sage but was walking away from an offer by Elsevier, the world's biggest academic publisher."
"In December, the sector IT body Jisc, which has been leading talks with the "big five" academic publishers on behalf of the U.K. sector, announced it had concluded negotiations after nine months of talks. While many universities, including the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford, have confirmed they are taking up all the deals, some institutions have chosen to reject the offer from Elsevier, which publishes Cell and The Lancet, on cost grounds."
The University of Sheffield will sign three-year deals with Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley and Sage and will not subscribe to Elsevier's offer because it is financially unsustainable. Lancaster University and the University of Surrey have also declined Elsevier's deal and will take up agreements with the four other main publishers. The universities of Essex, Kent and Sussex previously walked away from direct access to Elsevier's roughly 2,800 journals. Sheffield and Surrey terminated their prior Elsevier deal at the start of 2025; the University of York's library site indicates no access to Elsevier titles while York has not publicly commented. Jisc concluded nine months of negotiations with the "big five" publishers and many institutions, including Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford, accepted the deals. Some institutions rejected Elsevier's offer on cost grounds despite Elsevier publishing titles such as Cell and The Lancet.
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