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Research & Ideas

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Berkeley Lab leads nationwide name change process for research papers

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Berkeley Lab is leading a nationwide effort to harmonize individual actions bypublishers to update their name change policies, particularly on research papers.

For years, researchers would independently contact publishers to ask for their names to be updated on old research papers.
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UC

Thursday, May 13, 2021
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UC Board of Regents approves budget, discusses 1921 Walnut St., People’s Park

At its virtual meeting Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents passed the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, 2021-22 budget, discussed student mental health needs, heard updates on open access agreements for research and explored ways to support campus innovation and entrepreneurship.
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UC

Thursday, March 18, 2021
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UC strikes deal with Elsevier to increase research accessibility

Marking a large step toward making research freely available to all, the UC system struck an open publishing deal with research publishing giant Elsevier.
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Op-Eds

Friday, January 22, 2021
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Open access publishing could end academic elitism in science

The privatization of academic publishing has perpetuated social inequality by historically deterring disadvantaged universities from accessing research.
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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UC Berkeley faculty lead global efforts to increase access to research

Open access publishing has been on the rise in recent years, and UC Berkeley is helping lead the movement away from traditional, subscription-based publishing models.
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UC

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Rumored executive order would change landscape of UC subscription partnerships

Twenty-one Nobel laureates submitted an open letter to President Trump on Monday urging him to approve a rumored plan to make federally funded research free and immediately accessible after publication.
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Academics

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

UC libraries continue talks with research publisher Elsevier, enter new agreements

UC libraries have initiated open access to university-authored research with two new publication contracts announced in the new year, while the contracts with research giant Elsevier and other publishers remain in flux.
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News

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

31 UC faculty members sign letter suspending services to Elsevier’s Cell Press journals

The letter was written in response to an impasse in negotiations between Elsevier and the UC. The letter states that the signatories will only resume their relationships with Cell Press when an appropriate resolution has been made.
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Administration

Thursday, April 11, 2019
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UC system closes publishing deal with Cambridge University Press

After eight months of negotiations, Cambridge University Press and the UC system agreed to a three-year open-access publishing deal Wednesday.
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UC

Sunday, March 3, 2019

UC system ends contract with largest scientific publisher in push for open-access research

The University of California will not renew its subscription to Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher, citing inability to reach an agreement that would give public access to all UC research while keeping the costs associated with for-profit journals down.
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