Publication Management System Launches at UCSB | UCSB Library

"The California Digital Library, in collaboration with UC Libraries and the Academic Senate, is pleased to announce the planned September 1 launch at UCSB of the University of California Publication Management System. The system is currently being used by other UC campuses.     When the Academic Senate passed the Open Access Policy in July 2013, UC faculty asked the Academic Senate and University of California to develop a mechanism 'that would render implementation and compliance with the policy as convenient for the faculty as possible.' The UC Publication Management System is that mechanism. The automated Publication Management System locates the publication information of UC authors, sends you periodic email alerts to review publications found under your name, and prompts you to claim the publications that are yours, reject those that aren’t, and upload your final author’s version of each article covered under the Open Access Policy. The publication information is obtained from a variety of commercial and open databases. Not all of your publications will be located because no database indexes all periodicals. As we have explained in the past, the Open Access Policy allows faculty members to maintain legal control over their research articles while making their work much more widely available to the public ..."