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Effective February 4, 2025, the University of California (UC) along with 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) entered into a four-year transformative open access agreement (opens in a new tab)with Oxford University Press (OUP). The agreement provides the UC community with reading access to OUP journals and financial support to UC corresponding authors who publish their work open access. Authors at all 10 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are eligible for this support.
This agreement harnesses the resources of research institutions, private liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities and special libraries across California by redirecting existing library subscription funds to support authors publishing open access. The agreement enables authors at UCLA to publish articles using an open access license at reduced or no cost in more than 500 hybrid and fully open access OUP journals. Authors with grant funds available will pay a discounted open access publishing fee across OUP’s hybrid and fully open access journals. Authors who do not have grant funds available will be able to publish open access in hybrid journals at no cost to them.
Specifically, under the agreement, the UC Libraries provide financial support to UC corresponding authors for the payment of open access publishing fees, also known as article processing charges (APCs):
UC corresponding authors who publish open access in OUP hybrid (subscription) journals receive an automatic $1000 contribution towards the APC, along with the option to receive full coverage of the APC for authors who lack research funds to pay the remainder.
UC corresponding authors who publish in OUP’s fully open access journals receive an automatic $750 contribution towards the APC.
This agreement has two goals: (1) to support UC’s mission as a public university by making more UC-authored publications open to the world, and (2) to make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open access.
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Please see an FAQ published by the UC Office of Scholarly Communications(opens in a new tab). If you are a UCLA author and have questions, please email UCLA Library Scholarly Communication at oa@library.ucla.edu(opens in a new tab).