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The UC Office of Scholarly Communication offers a guide on managing copyright and negotiating publishing agreements. UCSC librarians are available to talk with you about your publishing choices, such as choosing a Creative Commons license, and agreements.
Aside from the terms of your publishing agreement, authors may share their articles openly under the UC Open Access Policies via eScholarship or another open repository. The University holds a nonexclusive right to share scholarly articles by affiliated authors open access.
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
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