Open and Shut?: Open Access in the UK: Reinventing the Big Deal

Open and Shut?: Open Access in the UK: Reinventing the Big Deal: I’m not so sure that the Big Deal fell into disfavour. At least it didn’t for a long time. What did fall into disfavour was the idea of top-slicing, which was very unfortunate. It transpired that many librarians prefer to pay more for less than have their budgets top-sliced.