Fri, Jan 29, 11:27 am | Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
After a career at UCSB spanning more than two decades, librarian Sherri Barnes retired at the end of January. She led the Library to the forefront of the movement for open access research as the Library's first Scholarly Communication Program Coordinator, her most recent role.
Throughout her time...
Tue, Nov 3, 10:46 am | Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UC Santa Barbara librarian Angela Chikowero has been selected to the 2020-21 cohort for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Open Education Leadership Program.
“I am thrilled that Angela has agreed to take a learning and leadership role in open education,” said UCSB...
Wed, Oct 14, 9:04 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Officially launched November 1, 2019, COPIM (Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is a three-year project organized around six interlinking work packages. Funded by Research England and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – the project is...
Tue, Jun 16, 9:45 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California announced June 16 that it reached a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, the world's second-largest academic publisher.
The agreement - the largest open access agreement in North America to date - is the first for Springer Nature and signals...
Thu, May 21, 1:00 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In January, the University of California announced an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society - to make it easier for UC authors to publish open access in ACM journals, conferences, and magazines. The workflow...
Mon, Feb 24, 11:00 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California (UC) and the nonprofit open access publisher, Public Library of Science (PLoS), have entered an agreement, effective April 1, that will make it more affordable for UC authors to publish in one of the PLoS journals.
UC libraries will pay at least $1,000 of the article...
Mon, Feb 24, 10:31 am | Events, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
You’re invited to join UCSB Library in celebrating Fair Use Week 2020 by visiting the information table in the Library Paseo from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 24-28.
Fair Use Week is an international event coordinated annually by the Association of Research Libraries that celebrates and explores fair use...
Fri, Jan 31, 4:05 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
With a new quarter and new year underway, you may be curious about the status of the University of California’s negotiations with Elsevier, which stalled last year.
Since then, there has been progress with other publishers as UC works to advance open access to its research.
Here’s what you need to...
Tue, Jan 28, 12:39 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UC Santa Barbara now has an Open Access Publishing Fund to support authors who want to make their research open access immediately upon publication and to ensure that no UCSB author who desires to publish open access is disadvantaged by a lack of funds to cover relevant fees. The UCSB OA Fund is...
Sun, Jul 28, 12:00 am | Collections, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January. Unfortunately, in late February the negotiations stalled. In the months since, Elsevier continued to provide access to new articles via ScienceDirect. As of July 10, UC's direct access to new Elsevier articles has...
