Open Science

Open Access Publishing: UC authors have many options for making their scholarly articles openly available, either by publishing open access with a publisher or depositing their paper in a scholarly repository, such as eScholarship. Whichever route an author chooses, UCLA Librarians can help. We can assist in identifying journals with which the UC has publishing agreements that waive the partial or full cost of open access fees. We can also help authors locate repositories to deposit their final publication, as well as navigate any associated embargo or copyright questions.

Open Science Workshops: The UCLA Library hosts workshops every quarter that assist researchers with common open science challenges, such as selecting appropriate data repositories, understanding preprints, the basics of DATA management for STEM and how to publish open access. If you have ideas for workshops you’d like to see us offer, please don’t hesitate to reach out with suggestions.

Navigating Funder Mandates: Researchers who receive federal grants or other research money must comply with the open or public access requirements of that federal agency or body. UCLA Librarians can assist you with navigating NIH and NSF funder mandates, reviewing data management and sharing plans and using the DMP tool, as well as selecting appropriate data or scholarly repositories.

Tools and Resource Support: Through UCLA subscriptions, researchers have access to many tools to support their open science practice, including Protocols.io, UCLA Dataverse, UC Dryad, Vivli, Overleaf, e-Scholarship and software packages that include ArcGIS, MATLAB, Python and more. In addition to supporting access to these tools, UCLA Librarians can also help researchers navigate freely available open science tools and resources, such as the DMP tool, Zotero, Open Science Framework, electronic lab notebooks, Zenodo, ORCiD and arXiv, to name just a few.