Seven Virginia Universities Collaborate to Negotiate New Contract for Scholarly Publications

Thanks to the collaboration among the libraries at seven public universities in Virginia and the expertise of a skilled attorney representing them in negotiations with Elsevier, a division of the British-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier, a new five-year contract will give faculty and students access to more than 1,800 scholarly publications. Specific titles range from Advances in Cancer Research to the Journal of Medieval History, but most of the publications report on research developments in scientific, technical, and biomedical fields.