The rights of UC authors are at stake. Here’s what we are doing about it. | UCnet

"UC has recently learned that academic publishers are attempting to subvert the rights of authors to control how their own work is used and shared. Through licensing agreements that authors are required to sign, some publishers even attempt to place restrictions on earlier drafts and supporting data — flying directly in the face of UC’s principles and values....

By purporting to restrict an author’s abilities to reuse their own work, “these agreements essentially turn faculty authors into readers, as opposed to creators and owners of their own work,” the Academic Senate chair concludes. The team that leads negotiations with scholarly publishers on behalf of the university, including representatives from UC’s California Digital Library, the 10 campus libraries, and the Academic Senate, is now taking up the charge, making author rights the next frontier in advocating for the UC research community...."