2002 & Earlier News

November 2002

• UC joins BioMed Central via UC's eScholarship program; membership entitles UC researchers to a waiver of the article processing fee for publishing in BMC journals. See the press release: [PDF]

April 2002

• UC launches its eScholarship Repository for working papers and peer-reviewed series originating at UC research units and departments. See the press release: [PDF]

December 2001

• The Budapest Open Access Initiative arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI). The meeting accelerates progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.

March 2000

• The principles for emerging systems of scholarly publishing are developed from the Tempe Conference on Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing in Tempe, Arizona, March 2–4, 2000.

March 1998

• The Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American Universities, and the Pew Higher Education Roundtable publishes "To Publish and Perish" in Policy Perspectives vol. 7, no. 4.