RLUK Calls for Journal Pricing Restraint

At its recent conference, RLUK announced it would not support future journal big deals unless they showed real price reductions.  With a cut to the teaching grant and research budgets flat at best, RLUK members believe that unless this happens they will be forced to cancel significant numbers of subscriptions which will fatally compromise the UK’s capacity for research.

The full press release is available here: http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/rluk-calls-journal-pricing-restraint