From the DEAL engine room — an interview with Bernhard Mittermaier

Abstract

A few years ago it seemed far out of reach (at least for OA advocates and maybe even for the heads of acquisition) and for more than two years now something has been on everybody’s lips: Whether management in higher education, scholars, librarians, or science journalists – “DEAL” is repeatedly associated with a project that aims at closing a national deal for scholarly publications, first and foremost with the three top dog publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley, and – later on – maybe even further academic publishers.