Open Access Content

Open Access: UC Forges New Agreements With IEEE and Nature

Dave Jones — July 28, 2022 - 9:54am

The University of California on Wednesday (July 27) announced two new open access publishing agreements.

The first supports open access publishing with the technical professional organization IEEE, which is among the largest publishers of UC research. The other is an extension of UC’s 2020 agreement with Springer Nature that adds funding support for open access publishing in the prestigious Nature journals; previously only titles in the Springer portfolio were eligible.

UC Reaches Open Access Agreement With Elsevier

Cody Kitaura — March 16, 2021 - 9:15am

After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This success resulted from all of UC coming together, including the faculty, librarians and university leadership, to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely available to all and improving scholarly communication.

Open Access: An Elsevier Poll and an Update

Dave Jones — February 03, 2020 - 11:51pm

A UC-wide poll is underway to gauge the impact of the loss of immediate access to current Elsevier publishing content via ScienceDirect.

MacKenzie Smith and Dennis J. Ventry Jr., representing the poll’s co-sponsors, UC Libraries and the Academic Senate’s University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, are encouraging the �ٺ��Ƶ community’s participation.

Smith is �ٺ��Ƶ’ university librarian and vice provost of Digital Scholarship, and Ventry, a law professor, is chair of the University Committee on Library and Scholarship Communication

The Conversation: UC’s Push for Open Access

Dave Jones — March 12, 2019 - 6:16am

The author is �ٺ��Ƶ’ university librarian and vice provost for Digital Scholarship. She wrote this op-ed for The Conversation, an online platform for public discourse. The Conversation posted the op-ed March 7.

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UC Terminates Elsevier Journal Subscriptions

Dave Jones — February 28, 2019 - 11:16am

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier.

UC DAVIS RESOURCES

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