https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180719/08132840266/applicant-major-eu-open-access-publishing-contract-proposes-open-source-open-data-open-peer-review-as-solution.shtml > We've just written about growing discontentment among open access advocates with the role that the publishing giant Elsevier will play in monitoring open science in the EU. That unhappiness probably just went up a notch, as a result of the following development, reported here by Nature: > Elsevier last week stopped thousands of scientists in Germany from reading its recent journal articles, as a row escalates over the cost of a nationwide open-access agreement.