CP2OA results are in: Open access efforts are taking flight - Office of Scholarly Communication

"Planning Committee’s Recommendations to CoUL [Council of University Librarians]

In advance of considering our recommendations this summer, CoUL has already approved some right off the bat, including:

• Making available the CP2OA Planning Committee’s report and all CP2OA public-facing documentation so that other institutions can have a blueprint for replicating or tailoring CP2OA to their needs. CoUL also approved a second round of CP2OA reporting so the Planning Committee could check in on forum participants’ progress later in the year.
• Continuing CoUL’s efforts to develop a public toolkit to support other institutions seeking to engage in “big deal” (large subscription journal package) re-negotiations that include OA components, and/or to engage more generally in transformative (e.g., offsetting/read-and-publish) agreements.

In June, CoUL will be addressing the other proposals in our report, including:

• Engaging the UC academic senate with OA in promotion and tenure
• Expanding institutional staffing and support for identification and evaluation of, and decision-making relating to, OA publishing investments and transforming the scholarly publishing landscape
• Dedicating collections funds across campuses to be used for supporting OA publishing
• Funding new data analyst positions to provide further inward-facing support for data-driven OA investments by UC libraries as well as outward-facing consultative support to the community beyond UC
• Collective investment in UC Press OA publishing
• Increasing support for monograph subventions for UC authors
• Collective investment in transformative cooperatives or non-APC approaches to OA publishing
• Committing to enhancing eScholarship, including expansion of OA publishing services
• Exploring opportunities for collective investment in open source infrastructure to support OA publishing..."