Through a new Subscribe to Open (S2O) partnership with BioOne, UCSC researchers will have reading access to all 219 BioOne Complete titles. Pending a successful pilot, meaning enough institutions subscribe to BioOne, 71 titles will be made open access (OA), resulting in increased exposure of publications for UCSC authors. 

During the pilot, BioOne Complete will be a mixed model collection of 219 subscribed, S2O, and OA titles. Providing there is sufficient support from subscribing libraries, current-year content of the S2O titles will be made OA. The latter includes 71 titles from 54 global societies, museums, and research organizations. If the sustainability threshold is not met, that content will remain available only to subscribers as before. 

UCSC researchers benefit from access to all current and backfile content from both S2O and gated titles. This includes reading access to the full BioOne Complete collection of more than 230,000 articles in the biological sciences. 

BioOne and UC’s California Digital Library are advancing a shared vision of creating a more open future while ensuring the sustainability of both nonprofit publishers and libraries. More details are available through the UC Office of Scholarly Communication’s post.

If you have questions about open access, please reach out to the University Library at research@library.ucsc.edu.