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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">RE: UC Reaches Open Access Agreement with Elsevier</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">March 15, 2021</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oevtZ0aQdSZNDYKDPND9Iiy-QlvFM2Osae_U1-lInbRc2XXj3MERAlVLD052WDdah1zVh_7o0noxssbkt8HiVkD4M3wm9Od9wUy03_9EX4GgZNHXSfa9Gc6BRG0amLOHeHanR7Ioqaj45TUdWlrgyenRiIt5DYXxLV5fjigYw1P8_uLgfnNFA2oujY51bm0a5z4I0IlaYtGdIwN6XuuVvi-RLg_fxUllrqECNPxEGnlGg&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">announced</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a
transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely
available to all and transforming scholarly communication for the better.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">The new four-year agreement will go into effect on April 1, 2021, restoring UC’s direct online access to Elsevier
journals while accomplishing the university’s two<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oesxfJXQYICbl0saUEtzuwIf0lCJuxtpbBVFBToILH_hcv4PTx1h09BlRS7vUdAv72IdF3kbrXv-0WN0KTW7xa_Nur78HJ6FbpPI0faQOo1-0VGgRDoeSVJ_SMLnXhwphsbzh1CNQLvf-WrxotTHoal2iq2qhgYCe0vNO-PW2zo8X_mnUcvQNnHuQgamjuvPDl8-tjFj21nAc&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">goals</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Enabling universal open access to all UC research; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 16px;" class="">
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Containing the excessively high costs associated with licensing journals.</span></li></ol>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">These goals directly support UC’s responsibility as a steward of public funds and its mission as a public university
to make its research freely available. The agreement with Elsevier will double the number of articles covered by UC’s open access agreements.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">What the agreement means for the UC community</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Reading access:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Effective
April 1, UC will regain access to articles published in Elsevier journals the libraries subscribed to before, plus additional journals to which UC previously did not subscribe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Open access publishing in Elsevier journals:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">The
agreement will also provide for open access publishing of UC research in more than 2,500 Elsevier journals from day one. The Cell Press and Lancet families of journals will be integrated midway through the four-year agreement; UC’s agreement is the first in
the world to provide for open access publishing in the entire suite of these prestigious journals.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Library support for open access publishing:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">All
articles with a UC corresponding author will be open access by default, with the library automatically paying the first $1,000 of the open access fee (also known as an article publishing charge or APC). Authors will be asked to pay the remainder of the APC
if they have research funds available to do so.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Discounts on publishing:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">To
lower those costs even further for authors, UC has negotiated a 15 percent discount on the APCs for most<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oevtZ0aQdSZND4DrowEE69gK76jzoljrDYDkS_db5Y7GnTHlfv4d-dsnzrnNk1QYpYpuihzQAzjnDFP4OcvfeogaDIst9daKtKeHA1GNrxmBPkU0m_hpVWsESPiMfpsv4oAZvJsQhlXyX&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">Elsevier
journals</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">; the discount is 10 percent for the Cell Press and Lancet families of journals.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Full funding support for those who need it:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">To
ensure that all authors have the opportunity to publish their work open access, the library will cover the full amount of the APC for those who do not have sufficient research funds for the author share. Authors may also opt out of open access publishing if
they wish.</span></li></ul>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">The economics of the deal</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">As with UC’s other recent open access agreements, the Elsevier agreement integrates library and author payments
into a single, cost-controlled contract. This shared funding model enables the campus libraries to reallocate a portion of our journals budget to help subsidize authors’ APCs — assistance that makes it easier and more affordable for authors to choose to publish
open access.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Even with library support, authors’ research funds continue to play a critical role. This funding model only
works if authors who do have funds pay their share of the APC.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">In the other open access agreements UC has implemented, we are already seeing a significant proportion of authors
paying their share of the APC. If this promising trend continues, UC can blaze a path to full open access that is sustainable across ever more publishers.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Partnering with publishers of all types and sizes</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Meanwhile, the university continues to forge partnerships with publishers of all types and sizes. In addition
to Elsevier, UC also signed open access agreements with three more not-for-profit and society publishers this month —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oevtZ0aQdSZNDtrCxqkV5KjToNNgSdT2F2Y6Qz6Vx_2gZm-GxqjVbAlxbe-m1EnLaSgXOhfLUM_gL3RiWqXxr3QSGKb14R156lhoMjE1-kiysNIWUEYeP66MHUj8JeGqAi1wQCeGSCNVoNBz3RxMSB2FK7d17KE2ly6Aq5nkgwSmbh1YMdjRNvYiL3cdOMnfg8A==&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">The
Company of Biologists</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oevtZ0aQdSZNDz2izpjUXEndBuoHx67FaEoA3GyPLlJRaJbdpMKrNgvtgBGvj6t0LuFa0qI81wCEyNJEmI0NSBAz4P7WDi38nBta82RoSEt5cGiCBFvcqd3yeobkLxVYq15XGsi2ju1T89NxKQOpZX4iYf1S6MFrjbepQ1EK9f4GQJxdVGKXuZTQ=&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">The
Royal Society</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oevtZ0aQdSZND28sXQQ8OcaUX-wdFELs_AqiAc_fCjgf8BDsEBokqXFfmHzO1xFvXmIEaAU8fFiBx9aK0Yxm_uElTPqh6B_3kY73UIMlbnH_t9NK-NyuOpASIPz3xjvZELHMI4m0YXGbJz2bao0XEim1oV2eJFb20IFJ09U6KfmDENhycOf34uJWp7XXlieOmNQ==&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">Canadian
Science Publishing</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">. These agreements are in addition to those secured previously with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oejtyDGGqOQZtN-E5oIBhodjk6rJ5HG8Q8Zzq3w-h27uXzb1J9nYhhK54VeD8HorxkxwpvPN8Ql9cpX_5QFsNRjdbeigKtqvTvxPRNHX65jkHxeRcZATQocB_xfulnOjhc4HbzUI-R6X3-5S-bimob4EFKGEffO58oYHf24UxZqMrB5wWnoDBUuKoHBWCbo7oixjt418N699NH7lc1jgU6C0=&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">Springer
Nature</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oesxfJXQYICblwxvJ3v-9d66MhITb8doJ5oJ28z5IRNYR6U3JgBlXuPqndQIZ07ioD8JzamKrGC_TUQgh0sd4SuDwbMQTvRm8Paot84aePicIKcTbS-ipZowmnVYP3XubNjjpvvbu6OcmRDhs4pVCZmUqBN7K2gXoOJI7JmRviTOEWDcWYnYqPULTsu20uT0JV71QPlce1Z2V&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">Cambridge
University Press</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">, society publisher<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oeiPB19yHpiyISSx1sLC-kXHCoANzNtF646H00YtTL0FZwOgYFbTT8RNcjpWc8g4oO6rk8M6Q2820imbBkszhW0XkvGlTkeFwbiylDKBBWEdpzQqOxnES-NRPh2ix-msrxV3ZbB7kRsGGkCWLP985K6jsDLWXCOTxmVuBH3XUP-PiKA_DcX_mSK1FuPVTG6cKyw==&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">ACM</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">,
and native open access publishers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oeiPB19yHpiyIMQ-364daf4fi2prw7dZ_FaT2jiRQWIWsdZ-QTHRFRGyD9dQVCWJ_2tIlFgL8BwtD1sSdrr3D2QIKh8AINVwbhNuksznDQuvPil0A9Kw8ye0J0u-0NPAe0ezW8-v5UUaM1BgaW6bIEEmuua36_uHMFGgy1J5sYHkG_vP1Dr_9gAg=&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">PLOS</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001skomGkrsYc7B22hDXIP60xMCglo7YewlCGSxGFK2EmmjTRV4M37oeiPB19yHpiyI5cmt4kha9x2OMmQCCogXfjSB4HrZ36siJOeyVLU4XqVF5CDIYzETgjNRPNtPTAAvRxDkjqsdXx2E15VKOb3ffKpUfW5Lo0bsNjIZkLUyTYf53lWQ-98V14BxWRJLhL92fgzWlo4JW78fCkfogT70XB5VAjG46f19IORoeeacedA=&c=Vm0JboNrG6Dtdwy4ZITOnbmW6PU349epwBgu1FQrIPRDgYTVeYNVCA==&ch=9x6Vvi5TYfeBg7EcyPzwypSnOOPvFozgPU0yS-1vcQRRiCFmnoKQRw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" class="">JMIR</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;" class="">Ultimately, UC’s goal is to make it possible for all authors to publish their work open access in whatever journal
they choose — providing broad public access to the fruits of UC’s research. This month, we have made a tremendous stride in that direction. We know that this has been a lengthy process and we thank you for your patience and support as we worked to reach this
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