Recent Press Releases

• 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)
• ‘Wind in our sails’: University of California hails White House guidance accelerating public access to federally funded research (August 26, 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
• 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)
• Practical Idealism: UC’s Approach to Open Access (July 6, 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)
• University of California statement on California State University’s Read and Publish-Plus agreement with Elsevier (March 9, 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)
• 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)
• Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal (April 10, 2019)
• Open Statement: Why UC terminated journal negotiations with Elsevier (March 20, 2019; revised April 25, 2019)
• UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research (February 28, 2019)

Key Coverage

• In act of brinkmanship, a big publisher cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals (Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2019)
• University of California defiant as Elsevier cuts journal access (Times Higher Education, July 11, 2019 — free registration required)
• Editorial: UC open access fight exposes publishing rip-off (The Mercury News, March 6, 2019)
• The Real Cost of Knowledge (The Atlantic, March 4, 2019)
• UC terminates its subscriptions to 2,500 journals in a battle over copyrights and access (Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2019)
• The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back. (Vox, March 1, 2019)
• UC Battles With Publishing Giant Over Free Public Access to Research (KQED, January 9, 2019)
• Opinion: UC is leading fight for open access to research (The Mercury News, December 30, 2018)
• Heavyweight Showdown Over Research Access (Inside Higher Ed, December 12, 2018)
• In UC’s battle with the world’s largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake (Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2018)
• On Publishing and the Sneetches: A Wake-up Call?* (American Society for Cell Biology, November 7, 2016)

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