As announced in September, Cornell University Library plans to unbundle its “Big Deal” package with publishing company Elsevier, which includes the ScienceDirect journal package, beginning in January 2027. Cornell licenses a considerable amount of online content from Elsevier, and it is no longer a sustainable option for our campus to maintain this “big deal.” Cornell will continue to license content from Elsevier on a title-by-title basis, and any online content that is no longer...