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• 12/02/2024 - UC Libraries Renews Contract with Ex Libris Group for Two Years

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Librarians in the age of open access: An evolving role, by Saskia Hoving, Springer Nature, July 4, 2024

SUNY Fredonia researchers gain access to Dryad data platform; workshop set, by Christina Hilburger, State University of New York at Fredonia, October 27, 2023

Frontiers pilots ‘flat fee’ publishing partnership with University of California, EurekAlert!, August 24, 2023

Association of Research Libraries and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Data Management and Sharing, by Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Association of Research Libraries, August 4, 2023

Transformative agreements are now the key to open access, by Steven Inchcoombe, Times Higher Education (THE), July 14, 2023

Campus joins UC-wide agreement with Wiley Publishing, by Caroline Marsden, The Daily Californian, April 18, 2023

New Article: “An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy”, by Gary Price, Library Journal / InfoDocket, April 11, 2023

University of California Agreement with Wiley Expands to all 10 UC campuses, Benzinga, April 13, 2023

Europe PMC integrates ROR into its Grant Finder, EurekAlert!, March 28, 2023

University of California to research expanded access to digitized books, by Rice Majors and Julia Ann Easley, UC Davis Giving, January 2023

NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Going Into Effect, by David Raths, Healthcare Innovation, January 3, 2023

PLOS announces partnership with EarthArXiv, EurekAlert!, December 8, 2022

Best Practices for Cataloging Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21, by Gary Price, Library Journal / InfoDocket, October 19, 2022

Next Generation Library Publishing: “From Vision to Reality: Bringing Resilient Open Source Infrastructure to Library Publishers”, by Gary Price, Library Journal / InfoDocket, September 7, 2022

‘Transformative’: UC announces agreement with SAGE publications, by Erica Jean, The Daily Californian, June 8, 2022

University of California Signs Up to “Opening the Future Programme”, by Gary Price, Library Journal / InfoDocket, May 3, 2022

UC–Davis and CDL Project Looks at the Future of Ebook Lending (Weekly News Digest), Information Today, February 15, 2022

United they stand (Libraries as publishers), by Rebecca Pool, Research Information, February 10, 2022

UCSF to House COVID Tracking Project, a National Database Donated by The Atlantic, by Robin Marks, UCSF News Services, July 30, 2021

University of California signs open access publishing deal with Elsevier, The UCSD Guardian Online, April 11, 2021

University of California secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher, India Education Diary, March 24, 2021

University of California and Elsevier Forge Open-Access Deal, by Diana Kwon, The Scientist, March 18, 2021

University of California and Elsevier finally reach open access deal, Chemistry World, March 18, 2021

• Big Deal for Open Access, by Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2021
• California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal, by Jeffrey Brainard, Science Magazine, March 16, 2021
• Not-for-profit publisher makes big move toward open access science, EurekAlert!, March 10, 2021
• PLOS Adopts Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink® for Scientific Communications to Manage New Community Action Publishing Model, Business Wire, February 9, 2021
• New Report Provides Recommendations For Effective Data Practices Based On NSF Research Enterprise Convening, by Carol A. Clark,  Los Alamos Daily Post, October 5, 2020
• Initiative for Open Abstracts launches to promote discovery of research, EurekAlert!, September 24, 2020
• Column: UC notches a massive win in its quest to save scientific publishing, by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2020
• A Landmark Open-Access Agreement, by Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, June 17, 2020
• Huge open-access journal deal inked by University of California and Springer Nature, by Jeffrey Brainard, Science Magazine, June 16, 2020
• Six tips for data sharing in the age of the coronavirus, by Virginia Gewin, Nature, May 19,2020
• A digital library revolution takes flight, by Michelle Simone, UC Newsroom, May 14, 2020 
• UC makes open-access deal with PLOS to reform academic journal publishing, by Bernard Mendez, Daily Bruin, March 8, 2020
• PLOS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement, PLOS Blog, February 19, 2020
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Uniform resolution of compact identifiers for biomedical data, by Sarala M. Wimalaratne, Nick Juty, John Kunze, Greg Janée, Julie A. McMurry, Niall Beard, Rafael Jimenez, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Henning Hermjakob, Maryann E. Martone & Tim Clark, Scientific Data, May 8, 2018.

One for Nine Ten: Cataloging for Consortia Collections, a UC model, by Renee Chin, Rebecca Culbertson, Shi Deng, Kathleen Garvey-Clasby, Bie-hwa Ma, Donal O’Sullivan & Annie Ross, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, November 21, 2017.

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• 02/14/2022 - UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books
• 03/16/2021 - UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher
• 09/28/2020 - eScholarship Releases “Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text” Using the Manifold Platform

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