University of California, Merced
AC-11: Open Access to Research

eScholarship provides scholarly publishing and repository services that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship. eScholarship Publishing provides comprehensive publication services for UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars who seek to publish original, open access journals, books, conference proceedings, and other original scholarship. The eScholarship journals program supports, in particular, publications that traverse standard disciplinary boundaries, explore new publishing models, and/or seek to reach professionals in applied fields beyond academia. eScholarship Repository offers preservation and dissemination services for a wide range of scholarship including working papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), student capstone projects, and paper/seminar series. eScholarship Repository is also the primary destination for researchers depositing their previously published journal articles in accordance with the Academic Senate’s UC Open Access Policy.

The two University of California policies can be found on the following links below.
1. https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/OpenAccess_adopted_072413.pdf
2. https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/UC-AP-15-0275_Open-Access.pdf

The University of California now has transformative open access publishing agreements with a broad range of publishers, including the world’s two largest commercial journal publishers and several society, not-for-profit, and native open access publishers. The specifics of the APC funding provided vary from one transformative agreement to another. Complete information can be found at: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/.

eScholarship Publishing provides comprehensive publication services for UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars who seek to publish original, open access journals, books, conference proceedings, and other original scholarship. The eScholarship journals program supports, in particular, publications that traverse standard disciplinary boundaries, explore new publishing models, and/or seek to reach professionals in applied fields beyond academia.

A number of project initiatives can be found here: http://library.ucmerced.edu/collections/collections/special-collections

Additional collaborative initiatives can be found here:

https://calisphere.org/institution/240/collections/
https://escholarship.org/uc/cognitivesciencesociety
https://calisphere.org/institution/238/collections/
https://calisphere.org/institution/239/collections/