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Open Access at UCSC

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 faculty or UC employee).

Basic Definitions:

Green Open Access
Previously published works can be deposited in open access repositories such as University of California's eScholarship Repository, arXiv, or SSRN.
Gold Open Access
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
Pre-prints and Post-prints defined
From SHERPA RoMEO

Observing the policy

This is a checklist of what you need to do:

Publish normally in any journal. Agree to normal publication contracts.
Keep track of the right version of your paper (the author’s final version, post peer review--see information about versions) for inclusion in eScholarship. Do this regardless of whether you are the first author, or a co-author.
Contact us with any questions, or if the publisher asks for a waiver of the UC Open Access Policy. You can also refer to the Office of Scholarly Communication’s website.
Follow instructions below for depositing in eScholarship:

Instructions to Deposit Your Work in eScholarship
Senate faculty can go directly here to manage your publications
How the public access your works: eScholarship

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