Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California (and former Secretary of Homeland Security during the Obama administration), has published an open letter on the university’s official website announcing that the university will no longer pay subscription fees to Elsevier—the mammoth scholarly paper publisher. In her letter, Napolitano claims that officials with Elsevier were unwilling to meet the two main requests made by the university: full open access to all scholarly articles published by authors at UC and reduced costs. She further notes that approximately 18 percent of research articles produced by UC faculty appear in Elsevier products.