Recent Press Releases
- 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)
Media Inquiries
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