From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:37:46 +0000

List members may be interested in this statement from the University of
California, issued today:

Over the past year, the University of California’s Systemwide Library and
Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC), in partnership with our
university libraries and the systemwide academic senate’s Committee on
Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC), has been considering the
twin challenges of journal affordability and the moral imperative of
achieving a truly open scholarly communication system.  Making the research
produced at the University of California open to the world has long been an
important goal at UC, as evidenced by the strong Open Access policies
enacted at the campus and systemwide level, our many initiatives to create
open access publishing options for UC authors (including CDL’s eScholarship
publishing service and our early open access pilots with third party
publishers), and most recently, a Declaration of Rights and Principles to
Transform Scholarly Communication promulgated by UCOLASC.

We believe it is time to take a further step along this road.

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2018/06/championing-change-in-
journal-negotiations/



Ivy Anderson

Associate Executive Director & Director of Collections

California Digital Library

University of California, Office of the President

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