Scholarly Communication

News: Scholarly communication

The Library’s Scholarly Communications Program leads initiatives to improve the sustainability, accessibility, and reach of scholarship at UC Davis and beyond.

Elsevier journals status update

TO: UC Davis Academic Community FROM: MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law and Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication RE: Elsevier journals status update As you may know, the ...

October 22, 2019 • MacKenzie Smith

Open Access Publishing with Cambridge University Press Begins Today

If you have submitted an article for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal in 2019, you now have the opportunity to make that article open access — freely available for anyone, anywhere to read — without any cost to you, thanks to a new ...

September 19, 2019

Library Spotlight: Michael Ladisch, Scholarly Communications Officer

Michael Ladisch leads the library’s Scholarly Communications Program, which supports UC Davis researchers on a range of scholarly communications and publishing matters such as open access publishing, publishing agreements and copyright issues, citation analysis, and how to use the ORCID identifier. He joined ...

August 8, 2019 • Jessica Nusbaum

Update on Access to Elsevier Journals

TO: UC Davis Academic Community FROM: MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law and Vice Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication RE: Update on access to Elsevier journals The University of ...

June 26, 2019 • MacKenzie Smith

UC Davis Library Signs Open Access Publishing Agreement with Frontiers Journal

Through a new UC Davis Library membership agreement with open access journal publisher, Frontiers, authors who publish in any of Frontier’s open access journals will enjoy a 7.5% discount on article processing charges (APCs) through the end of 2019. The library plans to negotiate a 10% discount for authors starting in ...

June 13, 2019 • Heather N Hayashi

UC and Cambridge University Press Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal

The University of California announced its first open access pilot with a major publisher, Cambridge University Press, today. Under the agreement, all UC campuses will have subscription access to Cambridge’s collection of over 400 journals, and open access will become the standard option for UC-authored articles published ...

April 10, 2019