Archive for October, 2025
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eScholarship Journal Spotlight: American Indian Culture and Research Journal
In this University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight interesting work of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program. Our latest dispatch is from David Delgado Shorter, Editor-in-Chief of American Indian Culture and Research Journal. In his Editorial Statement from the the journal’s most recent issue, Shorter writes: In the two years since our journal moved to an open-access publishing model, the world has changed in many ways. Many of us in North America are feeling whiplashed by unprecedented cuts to those resources that have made Indigenous studies possible. By leaving the subscription-based budget […]
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NIH Asks For Input on Ways the Agency Could Control Costs
The University of California recently submitted a response to NIH’s Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. In this Request for Information (RFI), NIH asked for input on ways the agency could control costs, particularly with regard to limiting the amount of grant funds that could be spent on article processing charges (APCs). In its response, UC did not support any of the five options for such savings as suggested by NIH in the RFI, predicting that APC caps would shift costs onto authors rather than reducing the amount that publishers charge, and could “unintentionally […]
