[Oa-italia] Fwd: [GOAL] Fwd: University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy
Maria Cassella
maria.cassella a unito.it
Lun 5 Ago 2013 10:56:24 CEST
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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Data: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:06:03 -0400
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Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:54 PM
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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