Tue, Oct 24, 9:23 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) at the University of California announces the launch of its new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication resource. This site supports the UC community in gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges of achieving and maintaining...
Tue, Apr 11, 9:00 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Number of UC articles published in Wiley open access journals increased nearly three-fold as a result of 2022 pilot agreement
The University of California announced today an expansion of the university’s open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. Building on the...
Wed, Mar 1, 12:36 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Faculty
In celebration of Open Education Week (March 6-10, 2023), the UCSB Library is highlighting one continuing lecturer’s experience incorporating an open educational resource (OER) into her courses. As the Library continues to deepen its commitment to an open paradigm for research and teaching, we want...
Fri, Aug 26, 4:51 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Beginning September 1, 2022, UC corresponding authors publishing in Elsevier’s prestigious Cell Press and The Lancet journals will be able to publish their articles as open access with financial support from the UC libraries. Cell Press publishes 50 scientific journals in the life, physical, earth...
The University of California announced two new open access publishing agreements today. 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...
Tue, Jun 7, 8:17 am | Social Sciences, Sciences & Engineering, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Digital Scholarship, Collections, Faculty, Humanities, Graduate Students
The University of California has entered into a two-year transformative open access agreement with SAGE Publishing. The agreement runs from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2024, and covers open access publishing and reading access to SAGE’s hybrid and fully open access journals. The agreement...
Mon, May 16, 1:50 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Faculty
We are very pleased to announce the University of California’s transformative open access agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS), the fourth largest publisher of scholarly journal articles by researchers in the UC system. Through this agreement UC-affiliated corresponding authors will...
Mon, Mar 14, 9:34 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Wiley and the University of California today announced a one-year pilot agreement that makes it more affordable for UC authors to publish open access in Wiley journals, making their articles freely available for anyone to read.
Corresponding authors at all ten UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley...
Fri, Feb 25, 2:02 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Faculty
In celebration of Open Education Week (March 7-11, 2022), the UCSB Library is highlighting one professor’s experience as he undergoes the process of publishing a textbook as an open educational resource (OER). As the Library continues to deepen its commitment to an open paradigm for research and...
Tue, Feb 15, 9:29 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California (UC) and the Biochemical Society / Portland Press, have entered an open access agreement, effective February 22, that includes open access publishing of an unlimited number of articles by corresponding UC authors.
The agreement also provides researchers throughout the...
