Alexandra Phillips
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...
collage of OUP journal covers
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...
Collage of Six American Society for Microbiology S2O journals
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,...
Mosaic of Copernicus Publications journals
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...
JOLT tool screenshot
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’...
Mark Clemente
In celebration of Open Access Week 2024 (October 21 - 27), the UCSB Library spoke to Mark Clemente, the Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library (CDL), about the University of California's Transformative Agreements with scholarly journal publishers.​  The UCSB Library...
A professor sitting at a table with students
Memorandum of understanding signed for four-year agreement that will empower more UC authors to share their scholarship openly with the world The University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis today announced a memorandum of understanding for a four-year read and publish agreement that will...
Open Education Week 2024 graphic
In celebration of Open Education Week (March 4-8, 2024), the UCSB Library is highlighting one lecturer’s experience incorporating open educational resources (OERs) into her courses. As the Library continues to deepen its commitment to an open paradigm for research and teaching, we want to support...
Screenshot of the eScholarship webpage
A convenient way to make scholarly work public under UC’s Open Access Policies The UCSB Library is pleased to announce that starting March 4th, 2024, all UCSB academic and research employees covered by the Presidential Open Access Policy, including non-senate researchers, lecturers, post-doctoral...
Wiley journal covers. Credit: Journal images courtesy of Wiley
The University of California has extended its open access agreement with scholarly journal publisher Wiley for an additional three years. From January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2026, researchers and students at all 10 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive...

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