University of California objects to increased cost for electronic materials

From The Sacramento Bee: Faculty and librarians at the University of California have threatened a systemwide boycott of Nature Publishing Group after it demanded an extra $1 million a year in license fees for its electronic materials. In an open letter to the community, librarians and faculty urged UC researchers to "help break the monopoly" of the publisher by declining to generate or review content for the journal. The move comes at the end of months of unsuccessful negotiations with the publisher after more than a doubling of costs between 2005 and 2009 for the publisher's 67 individual electronic journals.