Open-Access Publishing Expands at U. of California

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-07-28

Summary:

"In another victory for the open-access movement, the University of California system and Springer Nature have signed an agreement that will allow scholars in the UC system to make their work in Nature titles available free.

The idea that published research should be free to read has gained steam over the past two decades. Many academics say the trend helps democratize access to the latest scholarship, both for researchers and for interested parties outside academe. But figuring out how to pay for that access remains a challenge, as the latest negotiations in the UC system demonstrate.

The agreement, which begins on August 1 and runs through 2024, is an extension of a deal the two signed in 2020. Since then, authors in the UC system have tripled their number of open-access articles in journals operated by Springer Nature, one of the umbrella companies that control much of the academic-publishing world. The new deal expands the open-access provision to the prestigious Nature titles, a goal both parties set in their initial agreement. It’s also the first agreement to include open access for Nature journals in the United States...."

Link:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/open-access-publishing-expands-at-u-of-california

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Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.offsets oa.u.california oa.springer_nature oa.ieee oa.fees

Date tagged:

07/28/2022, 12:01

Date published:

07/28/2022, 08:01