UC Open Access Policy and UC Publication Management System Adrian Petrisor and Mitchell Brown February 12, 2015 Chancellor’s Advisory Council, UC Irvine
Covering Reminder of the Academic Senate-passed OA Policy and its benefits Information about the UC Publication Management tool which makes following the OA policy easier UCI Libraries’ contact information for help 2UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
UC Open Access Policy (adopted July 24, 2013) The policy adopted by the Academic Senate reserves rights for the faculty to make their articles freely available to the public in an open access repository. The policy grants a copyright license to the University that survives regardless of any later agreements authors may make with publishers. (see ) 3UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
Benefits of [UC] Open Access [Policy] Increases readers’ ability to find and use relevant literature Increases the visibility, readership and impact of authors’ works Accelerates the pace of research, discovery and innovation Creates new avenues for discovery in digital environment (Google) Provides access to crucial STEM materials Contributes to core mission of advancing knowledge by democratizing access across all institutions – regardless of size or budget 4UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
UC Open Access Policy – Moving Forward Provide an electronic copy of faculty’s final version or post-print of the article to the UC Provide link if article is freely available in another repository or as an open-access publication Include choices, such as waiver/embargo, but still may deposit article for archival purposes More info located at The University of California has notified over 200 publishers about the Open Access Policy adopted by UC faculty. 200 publishers 5UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
A waiver opts out of the policy completely for a particular article. The author’s rights are then limited to what is allowed by the publication agreement s/he signs with the publisher. An embargo delays public access to an article in eScholarship until a chosen time period has elapsed after its publication. The author retains rights, but choses to execute them later. UC Open Access Policy Waiver/Embargo Defined 6UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
UC Open Access Policy – Q UC Publications Management System goes live at UCI, UCSF and UCLA November : Faculty deposit implemented for remaining UC campuses, contingent on Senate reviews Spring 2015: UC Publications Management System starts to be implemented for remaining UC campuses, contingent on Senate reviews & funding 7UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
UC Publication Management System – Q Notifies faculty of publications assumed to be authored by them and found in various online sources Provides a straightforward way to upload your publications into an open access repository (eScholarship) Provides h-Index, altmetrics, article citations 8UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
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Teach people how to find out which publications can be submitted to eScholarship Identify future open access publishing opportunities Licensing and copyright issues Teach people how to use the UC Publication Management System How UCI Libraries Can Help 10UC Open Access Policy & UC Publication Management System
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