[Oa-italia] Fwd: [GOAL] Fwd: University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy

[Maria Cassella]

Per chi non e' iscritto alla lista GOAL: il 2 agosto il Senato 
dell'università della California ha approvato la propria Open Access policy.
saluti
MC

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Subject: University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, August 2, 2013

UC Office of the Academic Senate

*University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy*

*http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/*

Contact:

Professor Christopher Kelty, UCLA

310-880-2433; ckelty a ucla.edu <mailto:ckelty a ucla.edu>

Professor Richard Schneider, UC San Francisco

415-305-7992 <tel:415-305-7992>; rich.schneider a ucsf.edu 
<mailto:rich.schneider a ucsf.edu>

Professor Robert Powell, Chair, Academic Council

510-987-0711 <tel:510-987-0711>; Robert.powell a ucop.edu 
<mailto:Robert.powell a ucop.edu>

The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open 
Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by 
faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at 
no charge. ?The Academic Council?s adoption of this policy on July 24, 
2013, came after a six-year process culminating in two years of formal 
review and revision,? said Robert Powell, chair of the Academic Council. 
?Council?s intent is to make these articles widely?and freely? available 
in order to advance research everywhere.?  Articles will be available to 
the public without charge via eScholarship <http://www.escholarship.org> 
(UC?s open access repository) in tandem with their publication in 
scholarly journals.  Open access benefits researchers, educational 
institutions, businesses, research funders and the public by 
accelerating the pace of research, discovery and innovation and 
contributing to the mission of advancing knowledge and encouraging new 
ideas and services.

Chris Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, and chair 
of the UC University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication 
(UCOLASC), explains, ?This policy will cover more faculty and more 
research than ever before, and it sends a powerful message that faculty 
want open access and they want it on terms that benefit the public and 
the future of research.?

The policy covers more than 8,000 UC faculty at all 10 campuses of the 
University of California, and as many as 40,000 publications a year.  It 
follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar 
so-called ?green? open access policies.  By granting a license to the 
University of California prior to any contractual arrangement with 
publishers, faculty members can now make their research widely and 
publicly available, re-use it for various purposes, or modify it for 
future research publications.  Previously, publishers had sole control 
of the distribution of these articles.  All research publications 
covered by the policy will continue to be subjected to rigorous peer 
review; they will still appear in the most prestigious journals across 
all fields; and they will continue to meet UC?s standards of high 
quality.  Learn more about the policy and its implementation here: 
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/openaccesspolicy/

UC is the largest public research university in the world and its 
faculty members receive roughly 8% of all research funding in the U.S.  
With this policy UC Faculty make a commitment to the public 
accessibility of research, especially, but not only, research paid for 
with public funding by the people of California and the United States.  
This initiative is in line with the recently announced White House 
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive requiring ?each 
Federal Agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and 
development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public 
access to results of the research funded by the Federal Government.? The 
new UC Policy also follows a similar policy passed in 2012 by the 
Academic Senate at the University of California, San Francisco, which is 
a health sciences campus.

"The UC Systemwide adoption of an Open Access (OA) Policy represents a 
major leap forward for the global OA movement and a well-deserved return 
to taxpayers who will now finally be able to see first-hand the 
published byproducts of their deeply appreciated investments in 
research? said Richard A. Schneider, Professor, Department of 
Orthopaedic Surgery and chair of the Com

mittee on Library and Scholarly Communication at UCSF.   ?The ten UC 
campuses generate around 2-3% of all the peer-reviewed articles 
published in the world every year, and this policy will make many of 
those articles freely  available to anyone who is interested anywhere, 
whether they are colleagues, students, or members of the general public"


The adoption of this policy across the UC system also signals to 
scholarly publishers that open access, in terms defined by faculty and 
not by publishers, must be part of any future scholarly publishing 
system.  The faculty remains committed to working with publishers to 
transform the publishing landscape in ways that are sustainable and 
beneficial to both the University and the public.


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