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What is the University of California Open Access Policy?
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In recognition of the increasing importance of Open Access, the Academic Senate has implemented the UC Public Access Policy. It requires that faculty deposit the full text of their research papers into eScholarship (see below), where their work will be made freely available to the public.
"The policy adopted by the Academic Senate reserves rights for the faculty to make their articles freely available to the public in an open access repository. It does this by granting a copyright license to the University that survives regardless of any later agreements authors may make with publishers. The policy doesn’t transfer copyright to UC or allow UC to sell the articles. It also doesn’t prevent faculty from transferring copyright to publishers. . . You should read, and keep, any agreement you sign, but understand that the UC Open Access Policy is intended to preempt or augment these publisher default terms. This is true whether the publisher requires a copyright transfer or not. If your publisher isn’t requiring you to opt out by getting a waiver, you are fully within your rights to take advantage of UC’s policy." (source)
The UC Presidential OA Policy is an open access policies that cover everyone who authors scholarly articles while employed by UC. Policies covering Academic Senate faculty were adopted first, in 2013; a later policy covering all other UC authors was issued in 2015.
