Elsevier Tag | The Daily Californian

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

UC Berkeley faculty lead global efforts to increase access to research

Photo of someone reading a research article

There is currently debate within the scientific community concerning how open access to research can be best implemented. According to Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, university librarian at UC Berkeley, the UC system is in support of open access but is not able to fully enforce its policy to ensure that researchers publish open access work.

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.
Read More…

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.
Read More…

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.
Read More…

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.
Read More…

Administration

Thursday, April 11, 2019

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.
Read More…

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.
Read More…

Thursday, December 13, 2018

UC to negotiate terms with world’s largest publisher of scholarly articles

On Dec. 31, the five-year contract between the University of California’s California Digital Libraries, or CDL, and Elsevier – the largest publisher of scholarly articles in the world – will expire. Tensions are mounting between the University of California and Elsevier as they strive to negotiate new terms for the next contract.
Read More…

We're an independent, student-run newsroom.

Topics