Posts by Miranda Bennett
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Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project
Starting in 2025, UC Libraries are supporting several projects intended to broaden access to University of California research and scholarship by making UC-authored books open access. Following on successful efforts to open UC-authored journal articles, these projects will enable UC authors publishing books with select university presses to choose open access at no cost to them, and will also begin opening previously published books by UC authors. The projects represent both a “strategic investment in BPC-based OA monograph initiatives that directly support authors…aligned with UC research and teaching” and “strengthened partnerships with university presses,” two core recommendations of UC Libraries’ recently […]
