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Recent Press Releases

UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher (March 16, 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)

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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