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Publish gold open access articles in RSC journals at no charge

The UC Berkeley Library is partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC’s Gold for Gold initiative.

This program offers voucher codes that enable Berkeley researchers to publish their paper in Royal Society of Chemistry journals free of charge, as a Gold Open Access (OA) article, without paying the normal article publication fee (between £1000 and £2500).

Benefits of Gold OA publishing

Gold Open Access publishing makes electronic versions of papers accessible to readers for free – without any subscriptions or fees.

Removing paywall barriers may increase the visibility of research findings since works are easier to disseminate, easier to find, and easier to read.  Further details about RSC journals and Open Access are available here.

You are eligible if

• You are affiliated with UC Berkeley or LBNL (e.g., student, staff, faculty) and
• Your article is new and has been accepted for publication by RSC (i.e., vouchers cannot be used for articles that have already been published) and
• You have not previously received a Gold for Gold voucher from the UC Berkeley Library in 2015

Get your voucher code

After your article has been accepted for publication by an RSC journal, please complete the form at http://goo.gl/GAUwr to request your Gold for Gold voucher code.

Due to limited numbers, the Library will distribute the voucher codes on a first-come-first-served basis.

Fine print

• Voucher codes are provided only after your article has been accepted for publication
• Voucher codes must be used before December 31, 2015

Questions

Please contact Jeffery Loo, Chemistry Librarian, at jloo [at] berkeley.edu

Publish gold open access articles in RSC journals at no charge

The UC Berkeley Library is partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC’s Gold for Gold initiative.

This program offers voucher codes that enable Berkeley researchers to publish their paper in Royal Society of Chemistry journals free of charge, as a Gold Open Access (OA) article, without paying the normal article publication fee (between £1000 and £2500).

Benefits of Gold OA publishing

Gold Open Access publishing makes electronic versions of papers accessible to readers for free – without any subscriptions or fees.

Removing paywall barriers may increase the visibility of research findings since works are easier to disseminate, easier to find, and easier to read.  Further details about RSC journals and Open Access are available here.

You are eligible if

• You are affiliated with UC Berkeley or LBNL (e.g., student, staff, faculty) and
• Your article is new and has been accepted for publication by RSC (i.e., vouchers cannot be used for articles that have already been published) and
• You have not previously received a Gold for Gold voucher from the UC Berkeley Library in 2014

Get your voucher code

After your article has been accepted for publication by an RSC journal, please complete the form at http://goo.gl/GAUwr to request your Gold for Gold voucher code.

Due to limited numbers, the Library will distribute the voucher codes on a first-come-first-served basis.

Fine print

• Voucher codes are provided only after your article has been accepted for publication
• Voucher codes must be used before December 31, 2014

Questions

Please contact Jeffery Loo, Chemistry Librarian, at jloo [at] berkeley.edu

September 2013: The UC Berkeley Library has entered into a partnership with PeerJ, a new fully peer-reviewed, open access (OA) journal in the biological, medical and health sciences. Under the terms of this partnership, when a paper by a Berkeley author is accepted for publication in PeerJ, the Berkeley Library will automatically pay the cost of a Basic Membership for each Berkeley author. That membership will allow authors to publish one PeerJ article every year, for life, for free.

About PeerJ: PeerJ is a new open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal which publishers research articles in the biological sciences, medical sciences and health sciences. PeerJ maintains rigorous peer-review standards and is committed to rapid review and fast publication of research results. PeerJ selects articles “based only on a determination of scientific and methodological soundness, not on subjective determinations of ‘impact,’ ‘novelty’ or ‘interest.'”  Articles are easily discovered in Google Scholar as well as PubMed and PubMed Central. Unlike many OA publications which charge authors per publication, PeerJ provides low-cost memberships to individuals, which gives them lifetime rights to publish in PeerJ.  All authors on a paper must have a ‘paid Membership.’

For more information about the UC Berkeley/PeerJ membership, contact the Library’s Scholarly Communications Officer.

California Classical Studies has announced that their first open-access book has been published. The digital edition of Leslie Kurke, The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy, a reprint with corrections of the edition of 1990, has been published on eScholarship, the full PDF of which is freely available and immediately downloadable. The book is also available as a Print on Demand paperback for$29.95.

The editors of California Classical Studies have announced that they “are eager to receive submissions of long-form scholarship for peer-review, including hybrid works that include an extended textual element suitable for printing along with associated files to be offered in digital form only. The series aims to disseminate basic research (editing and analysis of primary materials both textual and physical), data-heavy research, and highly specialized research. “

See also Daily Cal on California Classical Studies (October 24, 2012).

Publish gold open access articles in RSC journals at no charge

The UC Berkeley Library is partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC’s Gold for Gold initiative.

This program offers voucher codes that enable Berkeley researchers to publish their paper in Royal Society of Chemistry journals free of charge, as a Gold Open Access (OA) article, without paying the normal article publication fee (between £1000 and £2500).

Benefits of Gold OA publishing

Gold Open Access publishing makes electronic versions of papers accessible to readers for free – without any subscriptions or fees.

Removing paywall barriers may increase the visibility of research findings since works are easier to disseminate, easier to find, and easier to read.  Further details about RSC journals and Open Access are available here.

You are eligible if

• You are affiliated with UC Berkeley or LBNL (e.g., student, staff, faculty) and
• Your article is new and has been accepted for publication by RSC (i.e., vouchers cannot be used for articles that have already been published) and
• You have not previously received a Gold for Gold voucher from the UC Berkeley Library

Get your voucher code

After your article has been accepted for publication by an RSC journal, please complete the form at http://goo.gl/GAUwr to request your Gold for Gold voucher code.

Due to limited numbers, the Library will distribute the voucher codes on a first-come-first-served basis.

Fine print

• Voucher codes are provided only after your article has been accepted for publication
• Voucher codes must be used before December 31, 2013

Questions

Please contact Jeffery Loo, Chemistry Librarian, at jloo [at] berkeley.edu

The UC Berkeley Library, through its Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), has entered into a partnership with SAGE that subsidizes author fees for papers accepted to SAGE Open, a new open-access journal. This means that UC Berkeley faculty whose papers are accepted in SAGE Open will be able to publish there for free. This is a particularly exciting partnership as it expands open access publishing opportunities in the social sciences and humanities. Now Berkeley authors in those disciplines have an opportunity to gain a wider audience for their research and thus potentially increase the impact of their work.

• About SAGE Open: SAGE Open is a new peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles spanning the full spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. As an online-only, open-access journal, SAGE Open is designed to publish research results rapidly and to make its content freely available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet.

• About Open Access: The business model for open access publishing shifts the cost of publication from subscriptions to authors. Open access journals are freely available but in order to pay production costs, they charge a fee to the author to publish in their journal. In many fields, particularly the sciences, that fee is then charged to a research grant. Recognizing that scholars in the humanities and social sciences may not have grant monies to draw on, the Berkeley Library and SAGE developed this unique partnership. For more on the crisis in scholarly communication and the open access movement, see the Library’s Scholarly Communication website.

January 2012: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), which provides UC Berkeley authors with funds to help cover open access fees, is four years old this month. Established on January 21, 2008 with the goal to increase the impact of UC Berkeley research and to encourage experimentation with publishing, BRII has become one of the most successful funds of its kind in the U.S. having approved/funded more than 130 articles. For more background on BRII, see a poster Advancing the Impact of Research: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) presented at the Berlin 9 Open Access conference in November 2011. For details on the program and an application, go to the BRII website.

 

 

eScholarship will extend its robust repository and publishing services platform to include UC undergraduate work, effective immediately. The CDL and UC Libraries recognize the clear and pressing need for the establishment of a service for the dissemination of substantial undergraduate research and publications, which are an increasingly prevalent outcome of the undergraduate education at the University of California. eScholarship already serves the repository and open access publishing needs of UC faculty and graduate students by providing access to nearly 40,000 research publications and 37 UC-affiliated open access journals representing over 275 academic units. Our undergraduate research services will include support for faculty-sponsored undergraduate journals, capstone projects, prizewinning papers, etc. We look forward to working with the campuses to spread the word about this new service. For any inquiries or questions, please contact Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing Services, California Digital Library (catherine.mitchell@ucop.edu)

January 21, 2011: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) celebrates its three year anniversary today. BRII supports faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. Over the last three years, BRII has approved more than 100 requests thus increasing the amount of Berkeley research that is open access. Through this program, BRII has also encouraged faculty to manage their copyright and has supported those researchers who wish to make their findings more widely available but who may not have access to alternative grant or departmental funding sources. Those benefiting from BRII come from a wide range of disciplines including environmental sciences, public health, engineering, energy and resources, life sciences, education and psychology. For more information on BRII along with instructions on how to apply for funding for your open access journal article go to the BRII website.