UCSF Faculty vote to make research freely available

UCSF faculty have unanimously voted to make current and future scientific articles electronically available freely to the public.  This new policy gives the university a nonexclusive license to distribute peer-reviewed articles and requires UCSF faculty to make their articles freely available immediately by depositing them in an open-access repository.  Members of the public will be able to find them easily using web search engines.  Read more . . .  .


OA Policy for UCSF

May 23, 2012: The University of California, San Francisco becomes the first UC campus to implement an open access policy. Under the proposed open access policy, UCSF faculty will make electronic versions of their scientific articles freely available to the public via an open-access repository such as eScholarship. The vote by the UCSF faculty senate was unanimous, making UCSF the largest scientific institution and the first public university to adopt an open-access policy. In February 2008, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences were the first university of adopt an open access policy. Since then, dozens of other universities worldwide have adopted institutional open access policies.

Meantime, a discussion of a UC systemwide open access policy is under discussion by representatives to the UC Academic Senate Committee on Libraries and Scholarly Communication. Read more: UC Open Access Policy Proposal.