First of all:
- IANAL
- I am not a translator
- I do NOT speak for the "Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen"
- it's
1:402am over here. - I just translated this because ppl on Twitter asked for it, ... and I strongly support the points in the press release
Ad-Hoc translation of http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Publikationen/Allianz/2016_12_02_DEAL.pdf
Author: "Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen" (Press Release)
literally: "Alliance of German Scientific Organizations" Representing: ... see header of the PDF, basically all German Science organizations I am aware of
Date: December 2nd, 2016
Title: "License offer of Elsevier contradicts Open Access and fair Prices for scientific Publications"
P1: Following month-long, intense negotiations, Elsevier has made a first offer to "Allianz der dt. Wissenschaftorg." for a federal license for access to scientific publications. In Allianz' belief, the offer does not meet the principles of Open Access and fair pricing.
P2: Besides today’s 40% profit on turnover, the publishing house is still going for price increases beyond the currently payed license fees. The publisher is declining more transparent business models, which would base on [the actual] publication service and make the publications more openly accessible.
P3: "With that, Elsevier tries to use its market-dominating position and threatens all [german] scientific organizations, whose contracts run out end of 2016, to disable all accesses [to their services].", says Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, president of the Conference of German University Presidents (HRK).
P4: The "Allianz of German Scienceorgs." declines the offer of Elsevier. [We] invite the publisher to make a transparent, sustainable offer and to re-enter the negotiation process. It's the scientists, which with predominantly unpaid work have a decisive part in the reputation of the publisher. That fact should be taken into account in the business relationship.
Below: Information on "DEAL" - "federal licensing of offers of large scientific publishers" ... 3 more paragraphs, see https://www.projekt-deal.de/ (dang, that's also all in german...)
Below: 1 more paragraph on "Allianz of german science orgs"
marked-dominating -> market-dominating
Host Hippler -> Horst Hippler
pagraph -> paragraph
Thanks, especially at 2am!