Five-year agreement will deliver access to UC researchers and support sustainable open access for independent nonprofit publishers
The University of California (UC) and BioOne announced the signing of a five-year agreement to bring the flagship BioOne Complete aggregation to 9 UC campuses and the...
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the University of California (UC) today announced a new transformative open access agreement that will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines. The three-year agreement will make it easier and more affordable for...
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library recently finalized the processing and digitization of the faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018). The papers offer scholars and enthusiasts unprecedented access to the works of one of the...
On July 1, 2025, the UC Libraries will migrate to a new Interlibrary Loan (ILL) management system. The new system will make it easier for patrons to view and manage transactions by merging the contents of My ILL Requests into My Library Account, creating a single platform for patrons to view all...
Thu, Feb 27, 10:09 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UCSB Library is committed to open research and teaching and supports faculty in using open educational resources (OERs) to create learning experiences with fewer technical, financial, and copyright deterrents. In celebration of Open Education Week 2025 (March 3-7), UCSB Library is highlighting a...
Tue, Feb 11, 9:02 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The 10-campus University of California system (UC), 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a comprehensive four-year transformative open access...
Mon, Feb 10, 8:16 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California (UC) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) are pleased to announce a novel multi-year Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC corresponding authors to publishing open access with ASM.
Under this new agreement,...
Fri, Feb 7, 8:02 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Effective January 1, 2025, the University of California (UC) and the open access publisher Copernicus Publications entered into a 1-year open access agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in Copernicus journals. The new agreement with Copernicus expands...
Tue, Jan 14, 1:44 pm | Art & Architecture, Collections, Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Music, Services, Student Success, Technology
Culminates multiyear effort to unite Library collections and services in central, state-of-the-art space
This article was originally published in UCSB’s The Current.
The newly opened Sara Miller McCune Arts Library at UC Santa Barbara culminates a multiyear effort to unite library collections and...
Wed, Nov 20, 8:18 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
New tool enables UC authors to look up journals covered by UC’s open access publishing agreements
The University of California (UC) has launched the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), a new service designed specifically for UC authors to easily determine if a journal qualifies under one of UC’...
