From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 23:50:44 -0500

Just for further clarification, are faculty instructed to be sure what
they deposit in the system is the legally correct version of their
articles, Green OA or version of record as the case may be? Do you do
any monitoring of faculty publication contracts to see if they are
complying with what is required/allowed?

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Catherine Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:40:42 +0000
>
> Joe -
>
> A word (or two) from California on the subject of our OA policy
> implementation numbers. UC faculty typically publish around 40,000
> scholarly articles per year, if we aggregate the scholarly article
> publication numbers from all ten UC campuses. We have, since beginning
> our OA policy implementation a year and a half ago, collected nearly
> 13,000 articles from them that fall under the policy. As thrilled as
> we are with these numbers (because, yes, this is more than we hoped
> for initially, given the challenges of implementing these policies and
> engaging campus communities), we also recognize that there is
> significant room to grow here.
>
> Our progress, thus far, has been made possible through a combination
> of 1). energetic outreach on the part of UC campus librarians, meeting
> with faculty committees, departments, etc. to get the word out about
> the policy and 2). the implementation of Symplectic Elements as a
> means of "automating" as much of the process of article collection as
> possible. What we are able to do via Elements is create a corpus of
> publication records for faculty which they can then accept/reject at
> the click of a button and then simply upload their AAMs into our
> system. The records and publications are then transferred to
> eScholarship (www.escholarship.org),  UC's OA repository and
> publishing platform, for display.
>
> We have seen exponential growth in participation in the policy since
> implementing Elements, now that faculty no longer have the burden of
> filling in publication record information in our systems and are
> regularly alerted when we find their new publications in indexes. That
> said, we are also quite cognizant of the challenges, described by
> Chris Kelty in the recent Chronicle article, of capturing and
> maintaining the attention of busy faculty who have varied levels of
> interest in and commitment to making their scholarship open. We hope,
> in our next phase of implementation, to create efficiencies for
> faculty by integrating Elements with other campus systems that
> currently collect faculty publication information, eliminating
> duplicative/frustrating tasks for them (and thus making the case for
> participation in yet another way).  But of course, these kinds of
> integrations take resources...
>
> In evaluating our progress against an idealized 100% policy
> participation rate, the Chronicle article oversimplified what is to be
> gained here.  At significantly less than 100% policy compliance, we
> have still managed to achieve a few important things:
>
> ·         Extending the reach of UC scholarship/research:  There are
> nearly 13,000 new UC-authored publications now openly accessible to
> the world
>
> ·         Empowering UC faculty to retain reuse rights to their own
> research:  All our faculty (regardless of their article deposit
> activities) now hold rights in their publications that they were
> previously signing away upon publication.
>
> To our minds, this is good news indeed.  We look forward to reporting
> even better news as our efforts continue.
>
> Catherine
> _______________________________________
>
> Catherine Mitchell, PhD
> Director, Access & Publishing
> California Digital Library | University of California
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> escholarship.org
> calisphere.cdlib.org
> oac.cdlib.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 20:22:11 -0400
>
> Why "only"? Isn't that figure incredibly high? I never thought they
> would reach that figure. It would be interesting to learn how UC
> managed to do this.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:20 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
>>  https://shar.es/1ljH1g
>>
>>  Three years after the university system's Academic Senate approved a
>>  bold plan to make faculty research freely available, only 25 percent
>>  of professors are putting their papers in a state-created repository.
>>  Sanford G. Thatcher
>>  Frisco, TX  75034-5514
>>  https://scholarsphere.psu.edu