UC OSC Blog
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UC Open Access Fund Pilots
The UC Libraries announce campus-based open access fund pilots to support UC faculty who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the public. Learn more.
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Meet Rich Schneider
Rich Schneider, UCSF Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Open Access champion, was instrumental in rallying UCSF faculty to pass an Open Access policy in May 2012. In this interview, Schneider reflects on this significant milestone and on the larger context of Open Access within the academy. View his perspective on: Why Faculty Should Care About Open Access Beyond Policy: How Can Faculty and Institutions Support Open Access? Faculty Support for the OA Policy at UCSF How We Passed the Policy at UCSF The Economics of Open Access
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UCSF Implements Open Access Policy
In May, 2012, the UCSF Academic Senate voted to adopt an open access policy that will help make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public. UCSF is the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so.
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UC Negotiations with Nature Publishing Group
Latest news: University of California Update (PDF) on Discussions with Nature Publishing Group, February 13, 2012.
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California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner
On February 7, the California Digital Library (CDL) announced that it is joining the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) as a major development partner in open access scholarly publishing. More information is available here and on the CDL’s eScholarship website.
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Council of University Librarians responds to OSTP RFI
On January 9, the Council of University Librarians submitted comments in response to two Requests for Information from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. The RFI’s, released in November, 2011, asked for public input on long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. See the CoUL responses here.
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Google Book Search Settlement Agreement Rejected
The Google Book Search Settlement Agreement was rejected by Federal Judge Denny Chin on March 22, 2011. Judge Chin concluded that the Agreement was not “fair, adequate, and reasonable,” per legal standards. He suggested that an “opt-in” settlement, rather than the proposed “opt-out” arragement, might ameliorate objections. The full decision can be found here. Read the UC Libraries Statement regarding the federal court decision on the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement below.
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UC-Springer Open Access Pilot Ends
The UC-Springer Open Access Pilot has ended effective March 1st, 2011. During the two-year pilot negotiated between the California Digital Library (CDL) and Springer, UC-authored articles accepted for publication in 2009 and 2010 in most of the 2,000+ Springer journals were published as open access under Springer’s Open Choice program. Unfortunately, Springer has decided to discontinue this arrangement. Articles published as part of this pilot remain fully accessible through CDL’s eScholarship publishing platform as well as on the Springerlink platform. An assessment of the pilot will be conducted this spring. UC authors wishing to make their Springer articles open access […]
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Statement from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group
Representatives from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group met on August 17, 2010, to discuss the organizations’ current licensing challenges and the larger issues of scholarly communication sustainability. Read the full statement released on August 25 below:
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Letter to UC Faculty About Nature Quadrupling Prices
A June 4, 2010, letter to UC Faculty describes a proposal to quadruple the price of a UC license for Nature and its 67 affiliated journals. The letter, authored by the executive director of California Digital Library (CDL), the chair of University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication of the Academic Senate and the convener of University Librarians Council, is an informational update about the UC Libraries’ pricing challenges with the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the likelihood that the libraries will have to cancel some or all NPG titles in light of the University’s current budget challenges. The letter […]
