Open Access at UCSC

EXCITING NEWS!:

Read about the recent UC / Cambridge University Press Open Access Deal

Follow the UC Discounts link on Open Access at UCSC tab for details.

About the UC Open Access Policies

UC Open Access Policies - Text of Policies
The UC open access (OA) policies reserve rights for UC faculty and employees to make their scholarly articles and conference papers freely available to the public in an open access repository. To read the text of the policies, use this link to connect to the policy for your specific role (academic senate member or UC employee).

Basic Definitions:

Author-Archived Open Access (Green)
Previously published works can be deposited in open access repositories such as University of California's eScholarship Repository, arXiv, or SSRN.
Publisher-Hosted Open Access (Gold)
Many publications are openly available for free to end users, but commercial publishers of OA materials may charge Author Processing Charges.
Open Access Definition
From the Budapest Open Access Initiative
Glossary of Open Access Terminology
Scroll down to access this helpful glossary.

Observing the OA policy

This is a checklist of what you need to do:

Publish, as you would, in any journal. Agree to normal publication contracts.
Have at the ready the correct pre-publication version of your paper (this is the author’s final version, post peer review--see information about versions: FAQ - How do I know I'm depositing the right version?). This is the version that you will upload to eScholarship. (Note: Keep track of versions regardless of whether you are the first author or a co-author).
When to contact the library: If you have any questions or if the publisher asks for a waiver to the UC Open Access Policy. Contact us at research@library.ucsc.edu or get answers on the Office of Scholarly Communication’s website.

Instructions to Deposit Your Work in eScholarship
Once you deposit your work, it will be available for public access on eScholarship

1156 High Street spacer bullet

Santa Cruz, CA spacer bullet

95064

Feedback

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License except where otherwise noted.

Patrons with Disabilities
Privacy Policy

Staff Portal
LibApps Login
Incident Form (staff only)

Land Acknowledgement

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.

University Library