Following its adoption by the Academic Senate on July 24, 2013, the University of California Open Access Policy for faculty was widely publicized by UC and by other news sources. In addition, UC contacted approximately 200 publishers directly to inform them of the terms of the policy: the publishers listed at the bottom of this page were sent a letter explaining that the policy gives UC faculty the right to deposit a version of their article in an open access repository and that the policy was effective immediately. Publishers were also sent a copy of the full text of the Senate policy and an FAQ.

Though the vast majority of publishers that UC authors work with have been aware of UC’s Senate OA policy for years, very few of them have asked authors to opt out of the policy by getting a waiver.  No publisher has notified the University that it plans to request waivers from all UC authors as a matter of course. Based recent years waiver requests by UC faculty, it appears that only a few smaller publishers are still regularly requesting waivers.

Below are the number of waivers requested by UC authors between August 2, 2013, when the UC-wide senate policy was announced, and August 1, 2024. Waivers can be obtained from the Waiver and Embargo page.

Note: this does not include the approximately 300 waivers created for UCSF authors between the adoption of UCSF’s local OA policy on May 21, 2012 and the announcement of the UC-wide policy, but it does include UCSF waivers for August 2, 2013 onward. Also, authors obtaining waivers of the UC OA policies have not been asked whether they are doing so at a publisher’s request or for other reasons.

Last updated August 14, 2024.
Nature Publishing Group 1714
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 149
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 125
American Roentgen Ray Society 107
IOP (Institute of Physics) Publishing 81
Physicians Postgraduate Press 69
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley 68
Elsevier 13
SAGE 8
Springer 6
Wiley 4
Thieme 3
Penn State University Press 2
BMJ 2
Transportation Research Board 2
ACS (American Chemical Society) 1
AIP (American Institute of Physics) 1
APA (American Psychological Association) 1
APHA (American Public Health Association) 1
APS (American Physical Society) 1
ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics) 1
Berghahn Books 1
CRC Press 1
Cold Spring Harbor Press 1
EB Medicine 1
FGV Sao Paulo School of Business Administration 1
Karger 1
LWW (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) 1
Mary Ann Liebert 1
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 1
Palgrave 1
Stanford Law School 1
Taylor & Francis 1
Tobacco Regulatory Science 1
University of Chicago Press 1
University of Pennsylvania Press 1
University of Toronto Press 1

Agreements with publishers

Some publishers have agreed to clarify their support for the rights of UC authors in the context of the UC libraries’ negotiations to license their content. License agreements with these publishers now include language protecting the rights of all UC authors to share their work in an open access repository even if the publisher’s default terms would normally limit that right. Redacted versions of these agreements are available from California Digital Library:

List of publishers contacted

All the publishers below were contacted by October 15, 2013.

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A

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)

Academy of Medical Sciences of I.R. Iran

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Adam Matthew

Adenine Press

Alexander Street Press

Allen Press

Alliance Communications Group

American Academy of Audiology

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

American Association for Cancer Research

American Association for Clinical Chemistry

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

American Association of Immunologists

American Association of Public Health Dentistry

American Board of Family Medicine, Inc

American Chemical Society

American College of Chest Physicians

American College of Healthcare Executives

American College of Nutrition

American College of Physicians

American Dental Association

American Dental Education Assocation (ADEA)

American Diabetes Association

American Economic Association

American Geophysical Union

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Inc.

American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

American Journal of Health Promotion

American Mathematical Society

American Medical Association

American Meteorological Society

American Pharmacists Association

American Physical Society

American Physiological Society

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc

American Psychological Association

American Public Health Association

American Roentgen Ray Society

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Cell Biology

American Society for Clinical Investigation, Inc.

American Society for Investigative Pathology

American Society For Microbiology

American Society for Nutrition

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

American Society of Hematology

American Society of Neuroradiology

American Society of Plant Biologists

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

American Thoracic Society

American Veterinary Medical Association

AMSUS

Annals of Family Medicine

Annual Reviews

ASM. The Materials Information Society

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Association for Asian Studies

Association For Research In Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc.

Association of Schools of Public Health

ASTM International

B

Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.

Bentham Science Publishers

Berkeley Electronic Press

BioMed Central Ltd

BMJ Publishing Group

Brill Academic Publishers

C

Cambridge University Press

Canadian Science Publishing

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chronicle of Higher Education

Cognizant Communication Corporation

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press Publications

College of American Pathologists

Columbia University Press

Company of Biologists

D

De Gruyter (Walter de Gruyter GmbH)

Duke University Press

Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle GmbH & Co. KG

E

Ecological Society of America

Edition Diffusion Presse Sciences

Electrochemical Society

Elsevier B.V.

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

EMH Schweizerische Arzteverlag AG

Endocrine Society

Expert Reviews

F

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Frontiers Research Foundation

Future Medicine Ltd

Future Science Group Ltd

G

Genetics Society of America

Georg Thieme Verlag KG

Gerontological Society of America

Guilford Publications, Inc.

H

Harborside Press

Harvey Whitney Books Company

HMP Communications

I

ICR Publishers

IEEE Publications

Index of Christian Art

Informa Group PLC

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Institute of Physics Publishing

Int. Medical Press Ltd

Inter-Research

International Centre for Diffraction Data

International Institute of Anti-Cancer Research

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

IOP Publishing

ISHIB

J

John Libbey Eurotext Ltd

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Johns Hopkins University Press

JOURNAL BONE JOINT SURGERY INC

Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Journal of Reproductive Medicine

JTE Multimedia

K

Kinokuniya Bookstores of America, Ltd

L

Landes Bioscience, Inc

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

M

Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Maney Publishing

Mary Ann Liebert

Massachusetts Medical Society

Materials Research Society

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

MDPI

Medical Library Association

MIT Press

Morgan & Claypool

Mosher and Linder, Inc

MultiMed Inc

N

National Academies Press (PNAS)

National Academy of Sciences

National Medical Association

National Research Council of Canada

Natural Standard

Nature Publishing Group

Neoplasia Press

New England Journal of Medicine

Now Publishers FNT

O

OceanSide Publications Inc.

Oncology Nursing Society

Optical Society of America

Ovid Technologies

Oxford University Press

P

Pan American Health Organization

Pharmacotherapy Publications Inc.

Physicians Postgraduate Press

PNG Publications

Portland Press Ltd.

Preston Publications, Inc.

Project Hope

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Q

Quadrant HealthCom Inc.

Quintessence Publishing Co Inc

R

Radiation Research Society

Radiological Society of North America

RAND Corporation

Rockefeller University Press

Royal Society

Royal Society of Medicine Press, LTD

RSC Publishing

S

S. Karger AG

Sage Publications

SCANDINAVIAN J WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

SLACK Incorporated

SOC LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SURGEONS

Society For General Microbiology

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Neuroscience

Society for the Study of Reproduction

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics)

Springer-Verlag GmbH

T

Taylor & Francis Group Ltd

Texas Heart Institute

Thieme Publishers

Thomas Land Publishers, Inc

U

UC Hastings College of the Law

University of California Press

University of Chicago Press

W

WICHTIG EDITORE Srl

World Health Organization

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
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