The University of California San Diego has signed an Expression of Interest (EoI) to adopt the principles of Open Access 2020 (OA2020), an international effort to make all scholarly publications freely and immediately available to everyone by replacing the current costly subscription-based approach with transparent, sustainable funding models.
UC San Diego joins educational institutions across the world that have signed the OA2020 EoI, including the University of California (UC) campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside and San Francisco. By signing the EoI, these universities have indicated a commitment to advancing open access (OA) through many possible mechanisms.
When an institution commits to signing the OA2020 EoI, it agrees to make a good faith effort to devise and implement practical strategies and actions for attaining reduced barriers in accessing and reusing information. This particular movement - initiated and led by the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich - provides a flexible framework for each institution to define for themselves how they will repurpose their journal subscription funds to support OA publishing. UC San Diego's goal is to ensure that the resulting actions in support of open access are feasible, sustainable and in the best interests of its faculty. To achieve this, the university will undertake outreach efforts that keep the lines of communication open between the Library, campus leadership, faculty, researchers and scholars.
The UC system has long been a leader in the open access movement. In 2013 the System wide Academic Senate acknowledged its commitment to open access by adopting an open access policy covering faculty senate members at all 10 campuses. Recognizing the benefits this brought faculty, two years later the University of California formalized a new policy to expand open access rights and responsibilities from just senate faculty, who were covered by previous policies, to all UC employees.
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