| Overall Rating | Gold |
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| Overall Score | 78.00 |
| Liaison | Katie Maynard |
| Submission Date | Feb. 29, 2024 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
AC-11: Open Access to Research
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Jewel
Persad Sustainability Manager Administration |
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Open access repository
Yes
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
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. The website offers publishing and production tools, including a full editorial and peer review system, as well as professional support and consulting services; it has been around since 2002 and is an open-access platform.
Open access policy
Yes
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
UC Open Access Policy:
Preamble
The Faculty of the University of California is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In particular, as part of a public university system, the Faculty is dedicated to making its scholarship available to the people of California and the world. Furthermore, the Faculty recognizes the benefits that accrue to themselves as individual scholars and to the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more thorough review, consideration and critique, and a general increase in scientific, scholarly and critical knowledge. Faculty further recognize that by this policy, and with the assistance of the University, they can more easily and collectively reserve rights that might otherwise be signed away, often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers. In keeping with these considerations, and for the primary purpose of making our scholarly articles widely and freely accessible, the Faculty adopts the following policy:
Grant of License and Limitations
Each Faculty member grants to the University of California a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, for the purpose of making their articles widely and freely available in an open access repository. Any other systematic uses of the licensed articles by the University of California must be approved by the Academic Senate. This policy does not transfer copyright ownership, which remains with Faculty authors under existing University of California policy.
Scope and Waiver (Opt-Out)
The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles published before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. Upon express direction by a Faculty member, the University of California will waive the license for a particular article or delay access to the article for a specified period of time.
Deposit of Articles
To assist the University in disseminating and archiving the articles, Faculty commit to helping the University obtain copies of the articles. Specifically, each Faculty member who does not permanently waive the license above will provide an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article to the University of California by the date of its publication, for inclusion in an open access repository.
When appropriate, a Faculty member may instead notify the University of California if 2 the article will be freely available in another repository or as an open-access publication. Faculty members who have permanently waived the license may nonetheless deposit a copy with the University of California or elsewhere for archival purposes. Notwithstanding the above, this policy does not in any way prescribe or limit the venue of publication. This policy neither requires nor prohibits the payment of fees or publication costs by authors.
Oversight of Policy
The Academic Senate and the University of California will be jointly responsible for implementing this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending any changes to the Faculty. Any changes to the text of this policy will require approval by both the Academic Senate and the University of California. The Academic Senate and the University of California will review the policy within three years, and present a report to the Faculty and the University of California. The Faculty calls upon the Academic Senate and the University of California to develop and monitor mechanisms that would render implementation and compliance with the policy as convenient for the Faculty as possible
In addition, there was another UC Open Access policy put into place on October 23, 2015 entitled “Presidential Open Access Policy”. This policy expanded open access rights and responsibilities to all other authors who write scholarly articles while employed at UC, including non-senate researchers, lecturers, post-doctoral scholars, administrative staff, librarians, and graduate students.
A publication management system has also been integrated into the hosting service for verifying employees’ and senate faculty’s articles. Those being contacted to verify must upload a copy or provide an open-access link to their publication.
The document is also available at the following link:
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/OpenAccess_adopted_072413.pdf
Preamble
The Faculty of the University of California is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In particular, as part of a public university system, the Faculty is dedicated to making its scholarship available to the people of California and the world. Furthermore, the Faculty recognizes the benefits that accrue to themselves as individual scholars and to the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more thorough review, consideration and critique, and a general increase in scientific, scholarly and critical knowledge. Faculty further recognize that by this policy, and with the assistance of the University, they can more easily and collectively reserve rights that might otherwise be signed away, often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers. In keeping with these considerations, and for the primary purpose of making our scholarly articles widely and freely accessible, the Faculty adopts the following policy:
Grant of License and Limitations
Each Faculty member grants to the University of California a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, for the purpose of making their articles widely and freely available in an open access repository. Any other systematic uses of the licensed articles by the University of California must be approved by the Academic Senate. This policy does not transfer copyright ownership, which remains with Faculty authors under existing University of California policy.
Scope and Waiver (Opt-Out)
The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles published before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. Upon express direction by a Faculty member, the University of California will waive the license for a particular article or delay access to the article for a specified period of time.
Deposit of Articles
To assist the University in disseminating and archiving the articles, Faculty commit to helping the University obtain copies of the articles. Specifically, each Faculty member who does not permanently waive the license above will provide an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article to the University of California by the date of its publication, for inclusion in an open access repository.
When appropriate, a Faculty member may instead notify the University of California if 2 the article will be freely available in another repository or as an open-access publication. Faculty members who have permanently waived the license may nonetheless deposit a copy with the University of California or elsewhere for archival purposes. Notwithstanding the above, this policy does not in any way prescribe or limit the venue of publication. This policy neither requires nor prohibits the payment of fees or publication costs by authors.
Oversight of Policy
The Academic Senate and the University of California will be jointly responsible for implementing this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending any changes to the Faculty. Any changes to the text of this policy will require approval by both the Academic Senate and the University of California. The Academic Senate and the University of California will review the policy within three years, and present a report to the Faculty and the University of California. The Faculty calls upon the Academic Senate and the University of California to develop and monitor mechanisms that would render implementation and compliance with the policy as convenient for the Faculty as possible
In addition, there was another UC Open Access policy put into place on October 23, 2015 entitled “Presidential Open Access Policy”. This policy expanded open access rights and responsibilities to all other authors who write scholarly articles while employed at UC, including non-senate researchers, lecturers, post-doctoral scholars, administrative staff, librarians, and graduate students.
A publication management system has also been integrated into the hosting service for verifying employees’ and senate faculty’s articles. Those being contacted to verify must upload a copy or provide an open-access link to their publication.
The document is also available at the following link:
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/OpenAccess_adopted_072413.pdf
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Yes
APC fund
Yes
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
As mentioned on the UCSB Open Access Publishing Fund website, which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsb-open-access-publishing-fund
“The UCSB Open Access (OA) Publishing Fund supports authors who want to make their research open to readers immediately upon publication. After applying and being approved, eligible authors will be reimbursed for article processing charges (APCs) for articles published in eligible journals. Criteria are outlined in the Guidelines below. The OA Fund is supported and administered by the UCSB Library. The purpose of the Fund is to cover the cost of APCs in open access journals so that no UCSB author who desires to publish open access is disadvantaged by the lack of funds to cover relevant fees. The Fund draws on monies that were added to the Library’s acquisition budget through the Chancellor’s Library Initiative for the purpose of addressing inflation in library material costs and to support new needs. Funding open access publishing is a rapidly changing landscape. Therefore, the Fund will be assessed annually for effectiveness, fairness, and sustainability.”
As mentioned on the UCSB Open Access Publishing Fund website, which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsb-open-access-publishing-fund, the Eligibility is as follows:
“Any UCSB employee or currently-enrolled student, who is a corresponding author and has recently had an open access article or conference paper accepted for publication, is eligible to apply for reimbursement of an APC. If the corresponding author is no longer affiliated with UCSB at the time of the paper’s acceptance, another UCSB author may be reimbursed for the APC. Authors will not be reimbursed for already published articles or conference papers.”
Website:
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsb-open-access-publishing-fund
“The UCSB Open Access (OA) Publishing Fund supports authors who want to make their research open to readers immediately upon publication. After applying and being approved, eligible authors will be reimbursed for article processing charges (APCs) for articles published in eligible journals. Criteria are outlined in the Guidelines below. The OA Fund is supported and administered by the UCSB Library. The purpose of the Fund is to cover the cost of APCs in open access journals so that no UCSB author who desires to publish open access is disadvantaged by the lack of funds to cover relevant fees. The Fund draws on monies that were added to the Library’s acquisition budget through the Chancellor’s Library Initiative for the purpose of addressing inflation in library material costs and to support new needs. Funding open access publishing is a rapidly changing landscape. Therefore, the Fund will be assessed annually for effectiveness, fairness, and sustainability.”
As mentioned on the UCSB Open Access Publishing Fund website, which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsb-open-access-publishing-fund, the Eligibility is as follows:
“Any UCSB employee or currently-enrolled student, who is a corresponding author and has recently had an open access article or conference paper accepted for publication, is eligible to apply for reimbursement of an APC. If the corresponding author is no longer affiliated with UCSB at the time of the paper’s acceptance, another UCSB author may be reimbursed for the APC. Authors will not be reimbursed for already published articles or conference papers.”
Website:
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsb-open-access-publishing-fund
Open access journal hosting
Yes
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
eScholarship Publishing provides comprehensive publishing 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. Its journal program, in particular, supports publications that traverse standard disciplinary boundaries, explore new publishing models, and/or seek to reach professionals in applied fields beyond academia.
eScholarship publishes over 90 academic journals that span the disciplines and share a commitment to the open distribution of knowledge and research, including international publications led by UC faculty, law reviews affiliated with UC law schools, and campus-specific undergraduate journals.
Website:
https://escholarship.org/publishing
eScholarship publishes over 90 academic journals that span the disciplines and share a commitment to the open distribution of knowledge and research, including international publications led by UC faculty, law reviews affiliated with UC law schools, and campus-specific undergraduate journals.
Website:
https://escholarship.org/publishing
Optional Fields
100
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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