The Libraries’ good deal: New three-year contract with publishing giant Elsevier 02 Feb, 2021
After a year of negotiations, the Colorado State University Libraries recently agreed to a new three-year contract with scholarly publishing giant Elsevier, through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
CSU researchers will continue to have access to the 2,300 journal titles from Elsevier currently available through the Libraries.
The Libraries subscribes through CARL, a coalition of 14 academic libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, to leverage the influence of collective purchasing power. CARL has agreed to pay about $7 million for Elsevier journal titles, and the Libraries will contribute roughly $1.6 million. Annual inflation rates for journal subscriptions typically vary between 4% to 8%, but the Alliance secured an approximately 15% discount from the previous Elsevier contract.
Task force on contract, continuing and adjunct faculty reconvened for spring 11 Dec, 2020
A task force that issued a host of recommendations around improving work conditions for non-tenure-track faculty at Colorado State University has been reconvened by Provost and Executive Vice President Mary Pedersen and will continue its work this spring.
In its second phase, what has been known as the Campuswide Non-Tenure-Track Task Force will continue to look at implementation issues associated with changes to the
Academic Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual that were approved by Faculty Council in April 2018. Those include practical matters related to compliance with new policies and procedures and adoption of best practices across the university.