Archive for July, 2022
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Nature portfolio now included in UC-Springer Nature open access agreement
Beginning August 1, 2022, UC corresponding authors publishing in the Nature portfolio of journals will be able to publish their articles as open access with financial support from the UC libraries. The agreement applies to a broad range of Nature hybrid and fully open access journals, including Nature, the Nature research journals, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports. Under the agreement, the UC libraries will pay the first $1,000 of the article processing charges (“APCs”) for articles by UC corresponding authors that are accepted for publication in hybrid and open access Nature journals covered by the agreement. The remainder due on […]
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IEEE and University of California Sign Transformative Open Access Publishing Agreement
This post is a press release issued by IEEE and the University of California. IEEE and the University of California today announce a four-year read-and-publish agreement to enable researchers across the 10-campus university system to publish open access in the technical professional organization’s approximately 200 leading journals and magazines. IEEE is among the largest publishers of UC research. “IEEE is a publisher of crucial importance to UC authors, who read and work with IEEE daily,” said Dr. Solmaz Kia, associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science and former research chair of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering […]
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Thousands of older dissertations from UCSF newly available in eScholarship
Over three thousand dissertations and theses digitized from UCSF’s archives, originally submitted to the university between 1965 and 2006, were added to eScholarship this year. These titles cover topics as disparate as the pregnancy experiences of black women, AIDS and identity in the gay press of the 1980s, and models for examining the clearance of drugs from the liver. Before the project was undertaken to add these dissertations and theses to eScholarship, accessing them was challenging: you may have been able to find one in a database if you were at a subscribing institution, but if the title was old […]
