The University Library is thrilled to announce the 2025 Open and Equitable Course Material Community of Practice. As part of the Community of Practice, four faculty members are partnering with the library to replace one module or section of their course with an existing Open Educational Resource (OER) which they will customize using an equity lens. The Teaching and Learning Center has also provided course design expertise to the Community of Practice.

Authors at the University of California, Santa Cruz now receive funding for open access publishing with Oxford University Press (OUP) through a four-year agreement with the UC Libraries. 

Nearly 500 OUP journals are covered by this agreement, and authors may look up their journal in the Journal Open Access Look-up Tool. 

UCSC authors may now receive 50% of the open access fees covered by the UC Libraries through the new publishing agreement with Copernicus. This agreement is for one year (the 2025 calendar year).

The new agreement between the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and UC Libraries provides funding for authors to publish open access in ASM’s six primary research subscription-based journals for three years.

Authors will not incur APCs. Standard page charges and supplemental material fees will be discounted. The corresponding author needs to be affiliated with UCSC (or another UC campus). Articles need to contain original research.

The included ASM journals are: 

Our new homepage for the University Library website launched December 16, 2024. 

After conducting extensive user research, including interviews and web traffic analysis, and conducting usability studies of our prototypes, this new homepage provides a more user-friendly experience for our students, faculty, and staff. 

Let us know what you think by using our website feedback form!

The Journal Open Access Look-up Tool (JOLT) launched this week. JOLT is a new resource for UCSC authors to easily determine if a journal qualifies for any funding support in one of UC’s open access publishing agreements.

The University Library invites applications for participation in the pilot Open & Equitable Course Materials Community of Practice. The program application should take 5-10 minutes to complete.

Are you a faculty member who wants to share your input on library services and collections? The University Library is holding focus groups for faculty on Tuesday October 15 from 9:30-10:30 AM and 2:30-3:30 PM on Zoom. The focus groups will inform the library's strategic planning process and ensure that faculty needs and perspectives are represented.

Please sign up for one of the focus groups. We will confirm your participation by emailing you with Zoom details.

Authors who elect to publish open access with Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select journals have their full publishing fees paid by the University Library. The news announcement covers more of the details. 

The Taylor & Francis FAQ answers common author questions.

The University Library is thrilled to introduce Annika Berry as the recipient of the 2024-2025 Fellowship in the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART).