<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please register all OA mandates in ROARMAP:<div><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/">http://roarmap.eprints.org/</a><br><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">LIBLICENSE <liblicense@GMAIL.COM><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 23, 2012 11:06:47 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>UCSF Passes Open Access Policy</b></span></div><br><div>From: "Taylor, Anneliese" <Anneliese.Taylor@ucsf.edu><br>Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:32:57 +0000<br><br>University of California, San Francisco Press Release<br>May 23, 2012<br><br><br>UCSF IMPLEMENTS POLICY TO MAKE RESEARCH PAPERS FREELY ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC<br><br>Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy<br><br>The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of<br>current and future scientific articles freely available to the public,<br>helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and<br>scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.<br><br>The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest<br>scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy<br>and among the first public universities to do so.<br><br>“Our primary motivation is to make our research available to anyone<br>who is interested in it, whether they are members of the general<br>public or scientists without costly subscriptions to journals,” said<br>Richard A. Schneider, PhD, chair of the UCSF Academic Senate Committee<br>on Library and Scholarly Communication, who spearheaded the initiative<br>at UCSF. “The decision is a huge step forward in eliminating barriers<br>to scientific research,” he said. “By opening the currently closed<br>system, this policy will fuel innovation and discovery, and give the<br>taxpaying public free access to oversee their investments in<br>research.”<br><br>UCSF is the nation’s largest public recipient of funding from the<br>National Institutes of Health (NIH), receiving 1,056 grants last year,<br>valued at $532.8 million. Research from those and other grants leads<br>to more than 4,500 scientific papers each year in highly regarded,<br>peer-reviewed scientific journals, but the majority of those papers<br>are only available to subscribers who pay ever-increasing fees to the<br>journals. The 10-campus University of California (UC) system spends<br>close to $40 million each year to buy access to journals.<br><br>Such restrictions and costs have been cited among the obstacles in<br>translating scientific advances from laboratory research into improved<br>clinical care.<br><br>The new policy requires UCSF faculty to make each of their articles<br>freely available immediately through an open-access repository, and<br>thus accessible to the public through search engines such as Google<br>Scholar. Articles will be deposited in a UC repository, other national<br>open-access repositories such as the NIH-sponsored PubMed Central, or<br>published as open-access publications. They will then be available to<br>be read, downloaded, mined, or distributed without barriers.<br><br>Schneider said hurdles do remain, including convincing commercial<br>publishers to modify their exclusive publication contracts to<br>accommodate such a policy. Some publishers already have demonstrated<br>their willingness to do so, he said, but others, especially premier<br>journals, have been less inclined to allow the system to change.<br><br>Under terms negotiated with the NIH, a major proponent of open access,<br>some of the premier journals only allow open access in PubMed Central<br>one year after publication; prior to that only the titles and<br>summaries of articles are freely available. How such journals will<br>handle the UCSF policy remains to be seen, Schneider said.<br><br>The UCSF policy gives the university a nonexclusive license to<br>distribute any peer-reviewed articles that will also be published in<br>scientific or medical journals. Researchers are able to “opt out” if<br>they want to publish in a certain journal but find that the publisher<br>is unwilling to comply with the UCSF policy. “The hope,” said<br>Schneider, “is that faculty will think twice about where they publish,<br>and choose to publish in journals that support the goals of the<br>policy.”<br><br>Full press release:<br>http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/05/12056/ucsf-implements-policy-make-research-papers-freely-accessible-public<br><br>Full text of policy and supporting documents<br>http://senate.ucsf.edu/2011-2012/j-lib-openaccess.html<br><br>Jennifer O’Brien Interim Executive Director/News<br>Source: Kristen Bole (415) 502-6397 (NEWS)<br>E-mail: Kristen.Bole@ucsf.edu<br>Web: www.ucsf.edu<br>Twitter: @KristenBole<br><br>Anneliese Taylor<br>Head of Collection Management<br>University of California, San Francisco Library<br>530 Parnassus Avenue<br>San Francisco, CA 94143-0840<br>(415) 476-8415<br>anneliese.taylor@ucsf.edu<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>