Open Access at UCSC

Open Access for Books

The University Library encourages authors to publish open access when possible. There is not a local fund for book processing charges (BPCs). There are ways to cover the costs or find discounts to make your book open access.

Publish Your Book OA
This page answers a set of frequently asked questions by UC faculty about open access book publishing and provides links to resources to help you find an appropriate publisher for your book, as well as some more fundamental information about funding, copyright, academic credit, and peer review.

Discounts for Open Access Books

See the following publishers with which the UCSC University Library is a member. These publishers provide discounts for open access book publishing or no-fee OA book publishing.

Luminos
University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for books makes the digital edition of scholarly monographs available free of charge to anyone around the world. The University Library is a member at the Courier Level, which brings a 10% discount on the Title Publication Fee for faculty members.
Open Book Publishers
Open Book Publishers (OBP) is nonprofit and academic-led with no author fees for open access book publication, and the UCSC University Library is a member.
Open Library of Humanities
Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has no author-facing charges for publishing a book open access, and the UCSC University Library is a member.

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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.