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In the midst of what have been difficult times, I am pleased to share some very good news. The University of California has reached a transformative open access agreement with
On March 25, 2020, the University of California issued a Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations. The systemwide policy, which aligns with those already in place at UCSF and
We’re pleased to announce three new publisher agreements that went into effect recently that make publishing open access more affordable for UCSF corresponding authors. Wide dissemination of UC authorship through
In February, the University of California announced that it had signed an agreement with the open access publisher, PLOS, to make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to
The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), part of the Executive Office of the President, is looking for feedback on how to broaden public access to research publications,
The University of California recently signed two new publishing agreements with the open access publishers PLOS and JMIR Publications. These agreements will make it easier and more affordable for UC
The UC Libraries and Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC) are co-sponsoring a short 3-minute poll * (requires UCSF authentication) to gauge the impact on loss of
As 2020 gets underway, we realize that many of you are curious about the status of the UC’s negotiations with Elsevier, which stalled last year. More on that as well
Have a research protocol you’d like to share with other researchers? You might have seen the announcement that the University of California system has a three-year premium subscription for protocols.io,
Starting in 2020, the University of California’s system for open access publishing with Cambridge University Press will be fully in effect, under the transformative open access agreement first announced in
You might have heard of ORCID and wondered whether it applies to you. Or perhaps you already have an ORCID profile but haven’t yet filled it in. ORCID identifiers (iDs)
Elsevier recently reached its first ‘transformative’ read and publish agreement with a U.S. academic institution, Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, PA. Under the agreement, CMU will have access to
The UC Office of the President is inviting comments through December 15 on its proposed revision to the existing Presidential Policy on Copyright Ownership for UC employees (links below). This is the
Earlier this year, we shared news about exciting changes to UC’s agreement with Cambridge University Press that will make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open
Join the UCSF Library in celebrating 2019 International Open Access Week! Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, worldwide access to research publications and other outputs, and the right to
The UCSF Library is excited to announce that we have partnered with the Graduate Division and Open Science group to host a reproducibility workshop series this fall. Why should I
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of Wednesday,
By Liz Silva, Graduate Division, and Anneliese Taylor, LibraryPhoto by Will van Wingerden on Unsplash For years, UCSF has been at the forefront of the open science and open data