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Request Course Resources for Fall 2025 July 8, 2025 Course resources is a service the Library offers to make course-related materials available to your students. Print materials can be made available at the Library for a 2-hour loan period upon request. |
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Open Access Publishing Options with American Chemical Society Changing July 1 June 10, 2025 Beginning July 1, 2025, open access publishing options with the American Chemical Society (ACS) for UC authors are changing. Authors who wish to publish under an open access license on the ACS platform will be responsible for covering the full cost of the discounted Article Processing Charge (APC). This change is due to a number of factors, including high publishing volume and lower-than-anticipated contribution of research funding, which have made the current agreement with ACS unsustainable. The option for authors without available research funding to request full coverage of the APC will end on June 30, 2025. |
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Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT) Now Available March 1, 2025 With the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), UC authors can search for a journal title to determine if there is full open access fee coverage or a discount. |
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Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement September 20, 2024 March 1, 2025 Effective January 1, 2024, the University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis entered into an agreement that provides financial support to UC corresponding authors who publish open access in Taylor & Francis journals. Authors at all ten UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are eligible for this support. The UC libraries will cover open access publishing fees, also known as article processing charges (APCs), in full for UC corresponding authors who publish open access in Taylor & Francis journals. This agreement has two goals: (1) to support UC’s mission as a public university by making more UC-authored publications open to the world, and (2) to... |
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Open Scholarship featured at Reception October 29, 2024 We celebrated International Open Access Week with a reception co-sponsored with UC Merced’s Academic Personnel Office (APO) on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Faculty and librarians attended and examples of faculty’s contributions to open scholarship were featured. |
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UC Libraries Acquire Resources & Support OA Initiatives August 14, 2024 New resources have been acquired by the UC Libraries for systemwide use. Resources for consideration were prioritized through feedback from all UC campuses and the work of the Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections (JSC) and the Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG). |
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UC’s Transformative Open Access Publishing Agreements & Discounts April 26, 2024 The University of California (UC) is committed to ensuring that UC publishing output is accessible to all. Open access (OA) 1) aligns with the university’s mission as a public institution, 2) empowers social, scientific, and economic innovation, and 3) complies with grant funder requirements. |
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White Paper from LASC Now Available December 21, 2023 The UC Merced Library White Paper (June 2023) was written in response to a charge from former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg Camfield to the UC Merced Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (LASC) to articulate the Library’s contributions to UC Merced’s mission of research, teaching, and service. |
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UC to End Funding Support for Open Access Publishing with IEEE in 2024; Reading Access Will Continue Author: Jerrold Shiroma October 19, 2023 The University of California will end open access publishing support through its agreement with IEEE effective January 1, 2024. The UC libraries’ funding support for page charges will also end at that time. Reading access to IEEE publications will continue without interruption — essentially reverting to the type of agreement UC had with IEEE prior to the open access publishing pilot. Since the pilot agreement began in July 2022, only 20 percent of UC authors publishing with IEEE have chosen to publish open access — far fewer than with UC’s other open access agreements — and of those who chose to publish open access, fewer contributed grant funds toward the open access fee than projected. With the low number of UC authors choosing open access with IEEE, and the resulting financial costs under the structure of this particular... |
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ZCCM Call for Proposals - Open for Summer & Fall 2023 Courses February 2, 2023 The UC Merced Library is currently accepting ZCCM proposals that will bring course costs to zero for courses offered in summer or fall 2023. Faculty and lecturers who wish to replace commercial materials with Open Educational Resources (OER) and/or library-licensed material are encouraged to apply for a ZCCM grant by March 27, 2023. |
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