News: Open access and scholarly publishing

UC pilot agreement offers discount on open access publishing with Wiley in 2022

Wiley and the University of California today announced a one-year pilot agreement that makes it more affordable for UC authors to publish open access in Wiley journals, making their articles

UC Davis Library launches AggieOpen to support OER adoption & creation

This Open Education Week, the library is launching a new program, AggieOpen, to work with UC Davis faculty and instructors to help them access, adapt, adopt and author open

New open access agreement between the University of California and The Biochemical Society / Portland Press

We’re delighted to announce that UC authors will now be able to making research they publish in the Biochemical Society / Portland Press journals freely available for anyone to read

Fair Use Week 2022

The Fair Use clause of the U.S. Copyright Law is a legal doctrine that allows the use of of copyrighted material without

UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books

Digitized books have become increasingly popular in recent years, and for university libraries and scholars, the first 18 months of the pandemic threw their value into sharp relief. As campuses

Five Common Questions about Publishing Under UC’s Open Access Agreements

A third of all research papers published by UC authors each year are now eligible for free or reduced-cost open access publishing through one of the University of California’s systemwide