Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the University of California (UC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to support open access (OA) publishing across the 10-campus UC system. With this agreement, Elsevier aims to find the right solutions to meet the diverse needs of academic institutions, researchers and funders worldwide, while ensuring published research remains trusted and high quality.
The four-year agreement pilots UC’s pioneering shared funding model at an unprecedented scale and will support UC’s libraries, funders and authors to increase open access publishing while also enabling all UC researchers to read Elsevier's extensive portfolio of journals.
This agreement has the potential to support sustainable open access for the future, in particular for a highly research-intensive university such as UC and helps deliver the University’s goal of securing open access to UC research.
As part of the agreement, Elsevier will implement UC’s shared funding model utilizing the company’s leading publishing systems which enable funding from multiple sources such as library budgets, funder grants and researcher funds.
It also presents an opportunity to better understand and learn from author adoption, helping progress open access publishing at UC and beyond.
This agreement is the latest in a series of open access pilots Elsevier has launched with universities across the US and around the world. In 2020 Elsevier published 81,000 open access articles, up 65 percent from 2019, making the company one of the largest open access publishers in the world. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable OA publishing.
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