[jcattle]

One of the reasons why in Germany universities were able to collectively negotiate better open publishing deals with Wiley and Springer, but Elsevier just flat out refused to agree to any better terms for three years.

(See Project DEAL: https://deal-konsortium.de/en/agreements/elsevier)

[pseudohadamard]

Happened in other countries as well, see e.g. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-l...