California universities and Oxford University Press sign landmark open access agreement
We are very pleased to announce that the University of California system (UC), 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a comprehensive four-year transformative open access agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP).
This major agreement harnesses the resources of research institutions, private liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, and special libraries across California by redirecting existing library subscription funds to support authors publishing open access. The agreement enables authors at the participating institutions to publish articles using an open access license at reduced or no cost in more than 500 hybrid and fully open access OUP journals.
The agreement demonstrates how innovative, diverse, multi-institution cooperation can play a vital role in the open access movement by ensuring that researchers at academic institutions of all types can fully engage in the benefits of open access publishing.
The new major agreement with Oxford University Press allows UC affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access in
- Hybrid journals: First $1000 of the article processing charge (APC) is automatically covered; full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Fully open access journals: First $750 of APC automatically covered.
The agreement covers articles accepted for publication on or after February 4, 2025, through December 31, 2028.
More details about the agreement can be found on the agreement webpage. And any question can be directed to the library’s Scholarly Communication Officer Michael Ladisch (mladisch@ucdavis.edu)