From: "Taylor, Anneliese" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:03:14 +0000
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The University of California, Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco
took a major step today towards the goal of making all scholarly
journal literature freely available to the world by endorsing the
international open access (OA) initiative, OA2020
(https://oa2020.org/), led by the Max Planck Digital Library. The
three UCs join the only other United States institution having signed
on to OA2020’s Expression of Interest (EoI)
(http://oa2020.org/mission) to date, California State University,
Northridge.
OA2020 is an international movement to convert the entire corpus of
scholarly journal literature to open access by the year 2020. The
OA2020 movement intends to accomplish this transition or “flipping” by
encouraging institutions to convert resources currently spent on
journal subscriptions into funds that support sustainable OA business
models. It does not prescribe a particular model for the flipping,
since that can vary by institution. Rather, OA2020 provides
flexibility for institutions to define for themselves how to repurpose
their journal subscription funds in support of OA publishing.
Faculty, administration, and library leaders from the three
universities see enormous potential in the goals set out by the
initiative to break down historic and financial barriers to journal
access, and thereby serve society as centers of higher learning
transmitting knowledge openly and freely. UC Berkeley, UC Davis and
UCSF worked together to sign the OA2020 EoI before the Berlin 13
conference (https://oa2020.org/b13-conference/) in Germany on March
21-22 this week. The campuses also put together the site OA2020.us
(https://oa2020.us/) to offer their perspectives about why they
signed, and to provide resources for other institutions who want
consider what OA2020 might mean for their institutions as well.
To read more, see UC Berkeley’s press release
(http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/2017/03/20/oa2020/) and UCSF’s press
release (https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-commits-to-make-all-subscription-journals-freely-accessible/).
Have questions? Please contact us at the email address via the
OA2020.us (https://oa2020.us/tools-resources-2/) site.
Rachael Samberg |
Scholarly Communication Officer | The Library | University of
California, Berkeley
Michael Wolfe |
Scholarly Communications Officer | UC Davis Library
Anneliese Taylor |
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections | UCSF Library
|
