[okfn-br] University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy

[Carolina Rossini]

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From: Catherine Mitchell <Catherine.Mitchell em ucop.edu>
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Subject: University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy



 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****

Friday, August 2, 2013****

UC Office of the Academic Senate****

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*University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy*

*http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/*

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Contact:****

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Professor Christopher Kelty, UCLA****

310-880-2433; ckelty em ucla.edu ****

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Professor Richard Schneider, UC San Francisco****

415-305-7992; rich.schneider em ucsf.edu ****

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Professor Robert Powell, Chair, Academic Council****

510-987-0711; Robert.powell em ucop.edu****

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The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open
Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty
at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge.
“The Academic Council’s adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came
after a six-year process culminating in two years of formal review and
revision,” said Robert Powell, chair of the Academic Council. “Council’s
intent is to make these articles widely—and freely— available in order to
advance research everywhere.”  Articles will be available to the public
without charge via eScholarship <http://www.escholarship.org> (UC’s open
access repository) in tandem with their publication in scholarly journals.
Open access benefits researchers, educational institutions, businesses,
research funders and the public by accelerating the pace of research,
discovery and innovation and contributing to the mission of advancing
knowledge and encouraging new ideas and services. ****

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Chris Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, and chair of the
UC University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
(UCOLASC),explains, “This policy will cover more faculty and more
research than ever
before, and it sends a powerful message that faculty want open access and
they want it on terms that benefit the public and the future of research.”**
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The policy covers more than 8,000 UC faculty at all 10 campuses of the
University of California, and as many as 40,000 publications a year.  It
follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called
“green” open access policies.  By granting a license to the University of
California prior to any contractual arrangement with publishers, faculty
members can now make their research widely and publicly available, re-use
it for various purposes, or modify it for future research publications.
Previously, publishers had sole control of the distribution of these
articles.  All research publications covered by the policy will continue to
be subjected to rigorous peer review; they will still appear in the most
prestigious journals across all fields; and they will continue to meet UC’s
standards of high quality.  Learn more about the policy and its
implementation here: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/openaccesspolicy/
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UC is the largest public research university in the world and its faculty
members receive roughly 8% of all research funding in the U.S.  With this
policy UC Faculty make a commitment to the public accessibility of
research, especially, but not only, research paid for with public funding
by the people of California and the United States.  This initiative is in
line with the recently announced White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP) directive requiring “each Federal Agency with over
$100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to
develop a plan to support increased public access to results of the
research funded by the Federal Government.” The new UC Policy also follows
a similar policy passed in 2012 by the Academic Senate at the University of
California, San Francisco, which is a health sciences campus.****

"The UC Systemwide adoption of an Open Access (OA) Policy represents a
major leap forward for the global OA movement and a well-deserved return
to taxpayers who will now finally be able to see first-hand the published
byproducts of their deeply appreciated investments in research” said
Richard A. Schneider, Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and
chair of the Com
mittee on Library and Scholarly Communication at UCSF.   “The ten UC
campuses generate around 2-3% of all the peer-reviewed articles published
in the world every year, and this policy will make many of those articles
freely  available to anyone who is interested anywhere, whether they are
colleagues, students, or members of the general public"


The adoption of this policy across the UC system also signals to scholarly
publishers that open access, in terms defined by faculty and not by
publishers, must be part of any future scholarly publishing system.  The
faculty remains committed to working with publishers to transform the
publishing landscape in ways that are sustainable and beneficial to both
the University and the public.   ****

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-- 
*Carolina Rossini*
*Project Director, Latin America Resource Center*
Open Technology Institute
*New America Foundation*
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-- 
*Carolina Rossini*
*Project Director, Latin America Resource Center*
Open Technology Institute
*New America Foundation*
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http://carolinarossini.net/
+ 1 6176979389
*carolina.rossini em gmail.com*
skype: carolrossini
@carolinarossini
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