Description:

Join us for a session highlighting Open Access (OA) publishing options available through UC Libraries. Speakers will include California Digital Library (CDL) colleagues, UC Merced faculty, and librarians. 

Panelists will provide updates on

• OA Publishing Agreement & Discounts
  • agreements that reduce the amount UC authors pay to publish open access
• Arts & Humanities OA Funds
  • including a pilot OA fund for humanities research with 3,600+ eligible titles
• eScholarship
  • as a publishing platform for journals, monographs, and conference proceedings

Our time together will conclude with time for your questions.

Context:

The UC Libraries reached their first open access agreement with Cambridge University Press in 2018 and have continued to negotiate agreements with scholarly journal publishers to reduce the amount UC authors pay to publish open access. UC Libraries’ 20 existing publishing agreements make ~55% of UC articles eligible for publishing OA.

More recent efforts to advance openly-available research have focused on providing OA support for UC authors of journals and monographs in the arts and humanities.

UC Libraries continue to invest in eScholarship, its institutional repository which also serves as publishing venue. eScholarship includes over 80 academic journals.

Panelists:

• Mark Clemente, Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager (California Digital Library) 
• Sidra Goldman-Mellor, Associate Professor, Public Health (UC Merced)
• Jim Dooley, Head of Collection Services (UC Merced Library)
• Justin Gonder, Senior Product Manager for eScholarship (California Digital Library) 
• Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections (UC Merced Library)

Facilitator: Sara Davidson Squibb, AUL for Research & Engagement (UC Merced Library)

Wednesday, October 21

1:30 to 2:30pm

This event will be held on Zoom.

RSVPs for the Zoom link and calendar invite.