Mon, Oct 4, 10:46 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Please join the Library in recognizing International Open Access Week, a global event now entering its 12th year. This year’s theme, “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” aligns with the recently released UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and highlights the importance...
Tue, Mar 16, 8:49 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
On March 16, the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians, and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals.
The new four-...
Wed, Mar 10, 9:35 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
We’re delighted to announce that UC authors can now make research they publish in The Company of Biologists, The Royal Society, and Canadian Science Publishing freely available for anyone to read by taking advantage of the university’s new transformative open access agreement with the publisher....
Fri, Jan 29, 11:27 am | Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
After a career at UCSB spanning more than two decades, librarian Sherri Barnes retired at the end of January. She led the Library to the forefront of the movement for open access research as the Library's first Scholarly Communication Program Coordinator, her most recent role.
Throughout her time...
Tue, Nov 3, 10:46 am | Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UC Santa Barbara librarian Angela Chikowero has been selected to the 2020-21 cohort for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Open Education Leadership Program.
“I am thrilled that Angela has agreed to take a learning and leadership role in open education,” said UCSB...
Wed, Oct 14, 9:04 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Officially launched November 1, 2019, COPIM (Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is a three-year project organized around six interlinking work packages. Funded by Research England and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – the project is...
Tue, Jun 16, 9:45 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California announced June 16 that it reached a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, the world's second-largest academic publisher.
The agreement - the largest open access agreement in North America to date - is the first for Springer Nature and signals...
Thu, May 21, 1:00 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In January, the University of California announced an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society - to make it easier for UC authors to publish open access in ACM journals, conferences, and magazines. The workflow...
Mon, Feb 24, 11:00 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California (UC) and the nonprofit open access publisher, Public Library of Science (PLoS), have entered an agreement, effective April 1, that will make it more affordable for UC authors to publish in one of the PLoS journals.
UC libraries will pay at least $1,000 of the article...
Mon, Feb 24, 10:31 am | Events, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
You’re invited to join UCSB Library in celebrating Fair Use Week 2020 by visiting the information table in the Library Paseo from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 24-28.
Fair Use Week is an international event coordinated annually by the Association of Research Libraries that celebrates and explores fair use...
