Research Guides: Open Access: Open Access @ UCLA

UCLA OA Initiatives

eScholarship Publishing Program

eScholarship provides Open Access digital publishing services to the University of California scholarly community. More information is available at escholarship.org

UCLA's eScholarship web site
Browse or search open access UCLA research.

eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window
UC's open access repository. Contains books, journals, working papers, conference publications, postprints, theses, and dissertations.

Encyclopedia of Egyptology
An online, innovative encyclopedia with an open access component http://repositories.cdlib.org/nelc/uee/ in eScholarship.
Institute for Digital Research and Education: Humanities, Arts and Architecture, Social and Information Science
IDRE-HASIS is a cooperative of faculty and technologists working to advance the existing body of computing knowledge and expertise at UCLA, especially within the areas of Humanities, Arts and Architecture, Social Sciences, and Information Studies research, education, outreach, and scholarly communication.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
UCLA is a member of this new open access consortium.

Student Group Initiatives

Open Textbook Movement
Open Textbooks are high quality open-access textbooks that can be used for no cost online, and can be printed for a low cost. Textbook costs can be a huge financial burden on students, and considering new low-cost options like open textboooks can help make textbooks affordable.
Students for Free Culture
Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.
UCLA CALPIRG
A UCLA student group working on the Open Textbook movement on campus.
Sparky Award
A contest to promote the open exchange of information. Make a short video to show the value of information sharing.

Author Rights

Retain Certain Rights
From the UC Office of Scholarly Communication; explains which rights to retain when you publish and offers models for modifying author agreements
UC Policy on Copyright Ownership
Creative Commons
Offers tools and license agreements for creators and authors that provide options for retaining rights and for providing notice to end users about what they can do without obtaining permission from the creator or copyright owner.
NIH Public Access Policy:
A guide to how the NIH Public Access Policy affects UCLA researchers and how to comply.
Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
SPARC Author Addendum
Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a journal article.
SHERPA RoMEO
Database summarizing publishers' copyright transfer agreements

UCLA Library Presents...

Sharon E. Farb, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Collection Management, and Amy Blum, UCLA Campus Counsel, discuss strategies for negotiating with publishers when signing an author's agreement for a journal article. See more videos on the the UCLA Library YouTube channel.