Press Releases
- California Universities and Oxford University Press Sign Landmark Open Access Agreement (February 11, 2025)
- New Open Access Agreement between the University of California and Copernicus Publications (February 5, 2025)
- University of California Enters Subscribe-to-Open Agreement with the American Society for Microbiology (February 5, 2025)
- New open access agreement between the University of California and Taylor & Francis (September 19, 2024)
- California Universities Partner with Wiley on Landmark Open Access Agreement (January 11, 2024)
- New pilot open access agreement between the University of California and Frontiers (August 22, 2023)
- University of California agreement with Wiley expands to all 10 UC campuses: New agreement quadruples the number of UC articles eligible for free and open access in Wiley journals (April 11, 2023)
- Cell Press and The Lancet titles now included in UC-Elsevier open access publishing agreement (August 29, 2022)
- IEEE and University of California Sign Transformative Open Access Publishing Agreement (July 27, 2022)
- Nature portfolio now included in UC-Springer Nature open access agreement (July 27, 2022)
- SAGE Publishing and the University of California announce a transformative agreement to expand reach of UC research (June 7, 2022)
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- Institutions partner with ACS to advance first California-wide transformative open access agreement (May 17, 2022)
- PNAS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement (August 3, 2021)
- UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher (March 16, 2021)
- New open access agreement between the University of California and Canadian Science Publishing (March 10, 2021)
- New open access agreement between the University of California and The Company of Biologists (March 9, 2021)
- New open access agreement between the University of California and The Royal Society (March 9, 2021)
- UC reaches groundbreaking open access deal with leading global publisher (June 16, 2020)
- PLOS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement (February 19, 2020)
- Update on UC’s open access negotiations with Elsevier and other journal publishers (January 23, 2020)
- ACM signs new open access agreements with four leading universities (January 23, 2020)
- University of California and JMIR Publications launch pilot to advance open access to UC research (January 23, 2020)
- Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal (April 10, 2019)
- UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research (February 28, 2019)
Opinion and Position Statements
- ‘Wind in our sails’: University of California hails White House guidance accelerating public access to federally funded research (August 26, 2022)
- Practical Idealism: UC’s Approach to Open Access (July 6, 2021)
- University of California statement on California State University’s Read and Publish-Plus agreement with Elsevier (March 9, 2020)
- Statement from the UC Libraries in support of MIT’s Framework for Publisher Contracts (December 17, 2020)
- University of California statement on Carnegie Mellon University’s transformative open access agreement with Elsevier (November 21, 2019)
- Fact check: What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier (August 2, 2019)
- Open Statement: Why UC terminated journal negotiations with Elsevier (March 20, 2019; revised April 25, 2019)
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