TO:        UC Davis Academic Community FROM:  MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law and Vice Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication RE:       Potential Changes to the UC’s Relationship with Elsevier in January 2019   An Open Letter to the Academic Community:  The University of California is renegotiating its systemwide licenses with some of the world’s largest scholarly journal publishers, including industry giant Elsevier. These negotiations may create significant changes in our access to new articles published in Elsevier journals as soon as January 1, 2019. (See below for details on town hall meetings where you can learn more regarding access and timing.) Importantly, the UC has adopted a new approach to these negotiations, seeking not only to constrain the runaway costs of journal subscriptions, but to make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish their research with open access. Depending on how the negotiations proceed, a range of potential outcomes could materialize: If we are successful, the UC may begin to implement a new system for publishing research in Elsevier journals in the near future. On the