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

From the University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication’s web site on open access at the UC: “The eScholarship repository and publishing platform enables the UC academic community to post previously published works; distribute pre-prints, working papers, theses and dissertations; and publish new materials such as books, journals, and conference proceedings. … UC authors are covered by the UC Open Access Policies. These policies allow authors to post scholarly articles in eScholarship or another repository regardless of the terms of their publishing agreement, as long as the agreement was signed after the adoption of the policy.” The site describes other subject repositories, as well.

Access eScholarship at: http://www.escholarship.org/

Information above sourced from: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access/; and accessed on February 24, 2020.

The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge.

On October 23, 2015, a Presidential Open Access 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.

Publishers may request that UC authors obtain a waiver or embargo. UC Office of Scholarly Communication’s FAQ notes that waivers are rare.

Academic Senate Open Access Policy: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/systemwide-senate/

Presidential Open Access Policy: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/presidential/

Participate in the UC open access policies: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/

“What are waivers and embargoes?” https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/policy-faq/

As of February 24, 2020, UC Davis was one of four of the 10 UC campuses to administer an open access fund to provide financial support to faculty and researchers. The two funds offered by UC Davis are the UC Davis Open Access Fund and the TOME Open Access Monograph Fund.
https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/guide/open-access-fund/
https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/guide/tome-fund/

Additional UC-wide information can be accessed at:
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-publishing-at-uc/oa-publishing-funds/.

eScholarship Publishing is an open access publishing platform subsidized by the University of California, managed by the California Digital Library, and offered free of charge to UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs and individual scholars. eScholarship offers publishing and production tools, including a full editorial and peer review system, as well as professional support and consulting services. Through eScholarship University of California, the 10 UC campuses, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the UC Office of the President host a combined 85 open access journals, as of February 24, 2020. UC Davis currently hosts 5 of the open access journals.
Access at: https://escholarship.org/journals

UC Davis offers resources for open access support, in addition to being one of the campuses offering access to publishing funds. The UC Davis Library team maintains a dedicated support team to answer questions for campus scholars and employees.

The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication offers an extensive set of resources for open access support; information can be found at:
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-publishing-at-uc/.
Additional information is available at: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/policy-faq/.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier.
More information is available at: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/uc-and-elsevier/.

There is not currently a UC systemwide policy on open access to dissertations and theses; campuses which have open access dissertations and theses can be found at: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/dissertations-theses/. UC Davis is underway with creating a process to upload our electronic theses and dissertations.

The eScholarship team is working on tracking as a future project, but we currently cannot provide a percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository.