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Launch of the Journal Open Access Look-up Tool

Posted on by Timothy Vollmer

Screenshot of the University of California’s CDL Journal Open Access Lookup Tool homepage. The page title reads, “Open Access publishing support for University of California authors.” A search bar labeled “Find a journal” allows users to enter a title or ISSN to check funding availability.

Today, California Digital Library launched the Journal Open Access Look-up Tool (JOLT).

What is it?

It’s a website (jolt.cdlib.org) that enables authors to search by a given journal title to determine whether it is eligible for financial support under one of UC’s systemwide open access publishing agreements. Recall that UC’s OA publishing agreements help defray the payment of open access fees in order to make UC scholarship freely available to readers around the world.

How does it work?

JOLT acts as a standard search bar. Users can search by journal title and ISSN. Journals with well-known abbreviations (e.g. “PLOS” for Public Library of Science) are searchable by their acronyms.

Journals in the search results will include one of three labels:

  • Full funding on request
  • Partial funding or discount
  • No support available

Clicking on a search result will expand it to reveal more details, including the specific level of funding provided, the publisher, and links to the agreement FAQ and payment workflow details on the Office of Scholarly Communication website. If a title search does not yield any results, it means the journal is not covered by an agreement.

Please contact the Scholarly Communication + Information Policy office at schol-comm@berkeley.edu if you have any questions.