UC OSC Blog
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New resources for UC authors to help them make their articles open access
We’re happy to announce two new resources for UC authors, both of which provide easy-to-navigate guidance to making their research articles freely available. Both versions include links to related information for authors, including pages focused on the UC open access policies and UC’s publisher agreements and discounts. We know that the open access landscape can be overwhelming, especially for those new to the subject. We hope that these resources will help authors to better understand their options.
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UC-wide protocols.io Pilot: A Five-Year Journey to Promote Research Reproducibility
Since 2019, the University of California (UC) system has partnered with protocols.io to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in research: the lack of transparent, reproducible methods in scientific publications. This five-year pilot allowed UC researchers free access to the Premium tier plan with tools to create, share, and collaborate on research protocols. The pilot will end on October 31, 2024, however, UC members of protocols.io will be able to continue to utilize their existing accounts at the free Open Research tier going forward. As the pilot concludes, we reflect on its successes and outline what comes next for […]
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New open access agreement between the University of California and Taylor & Francis
Memorandum of understanding signed for four-year agreement that will empower more UC authors to share their scholarship openly with the world This post is a press release issued by the University of California and Taylor & Francis. The University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis today announced a memorandum of understanding for a four-year read and publish agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish open access (OA) articles in nearly 2,500 Taylor & Francis journals. The new partnership between UC and one of the ten largest publishers of UC research advances a […]
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UC leaders remain steadfast in advancing open scholarship and protecting the rights of scholars and readers
This article was originally published on UCnet on July 22, 2024. The University of California (UC) remains committed to protecting the rights of those who create and read academic research — not only for UC’s faculty, students, researchers and clinicians, but also for people around the world who stand to benefit from this research. In a letter sent on June 19, 2024 (PDF version of the letter), UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC System Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine S. Newman joined the UC Academic Senate to support the UC Libraries’ negotiations with publishers to protect these […]
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Next Generation Library Publishing + Big Ten Academic Alliance Announce the Launch of a Pilot Project
The Next Generation Library Publishing project is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) to test and expand state-of-the-art infrastructure solutions for our academy owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and grounded in academic values. In order to enable greater discovery, dissemination, and preservation of BTAA-published content, the pilot project will create a single aggregate discovery layer for the many disparate publishing platforms of the participating libraries, enabling an experience of them as a single, shared collection of published open access materials. Through this BTAA-funded pilot project, Penn State University Libraries and […]
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Follow up from The Right to Deposit webinar: statement and early signatories
Approximately 350 attendees joined the webinar The Right to Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and Public Access on April 16, 2024. The event explored the conflicting messages authors face in the course of publishing their work and attempting to comply with the institutional, funder and publisher policies. Approaches discussed that could create more clarity in particular for federally funded authors include institutional open access policies as well as reliance on the federal purpose license. Like institutional open access policies, the federal purpose license establishes a pre-existing right to deposit an article. At the conclusion of the event, […]
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Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL, and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States
Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL), and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, Mexico in October 2023. The Summit convened the international community to engage in dialog about how to advance Diamond Open Access (OA) to secure scholarly research as a public good and ensure equitable access to both the publishing and reading of that research. You can learn more from the recently released Report of the 2nd Diamond Open Access Conference. The Summit made evident the substantial global commitment to Diamond OA. If the United States […]
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Upcoming webinar: “The Right To Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and Public Access”
“The Right To Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and Public Access” is a free webinar that will be held on April 16th from 11:00-1:30 pm PDT (2:00-3:30 EDT). It will explore the deposit rights environment authors will face under new, zero-embargo public access policies from federal funders, and the role institutions can play in supporting these rights. Authors and librarians at US higher education institutions are encouraged to attend to learn more about the details of these new policies and what their rights are; representatives and staff from funding agencies are also invited to learn more about the […]
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Fair use rights to conduct text and data mining and use artificial intelligence tools are essential for UC research and teaching
The UC Libraries strive to preserve fair use rights when licensing electronic resources—including the fair use rights to conduct computational research and incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic studies and scholarship. Academic scholars like those on our campuses use licensed content for computational research, sometimes referred to as text and data mining, or TDM. As the electronic resource licensing landscape has evolved, there has been a concerning rise in publishers’ attempts to restrict fair uses, particularly for TDM and any use of AI tools in the process. Fair use restrictions on computational research and AI usage have deleterious effect: […]
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New Open Access Book from eScholarship Publishing: The Art of Diversity by Susan Carlson
eScholarship Publishing, University of California, announces a new open access book release: The Art of Diversity: A Chronicle of Advancing the University of California Faculty through Efforts in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2010–2022 by Susan Carlson. In this institutional history, Carlson details the University of California’s systemwide efforts to increase the diversity of its faculty during her tenure as Vice Provost, UC Office of the President. It tells the story of a remarkable alignment of California stakeholders—from the UC Regents and University leaders to the Academic Senate and the California legislature, from small faculty teams to multicampus coalitions—and how they […]
