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What You Can Do

Explore Alternative Access Models

Submit your publications to the UC eScholarship Postprint Repository. Postprints allow faculty to disseminate their scholarship, and allow the general public to freely access previously published peer-reviewed articles.
Publish in open access journals:

"OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. Their expenses consist of peer review, manuscript preparation, and server space. OA journals pay their bills very much the way broadcast television and radio stations do: those with an interest in disseminating the content pay the production costs upfront so that access can be free of charge for everyone."
- Peter Suber, "A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access."

Use your membership in scholarly associations to encourage reasonable publication pricing.
Use your position on editorial boards to influence publishers to promote reasonable pricing and open access.
Use your connection to UC faculty to influence the scholarly publishing market.

Familiarize yourself with the UC Office of Scholarly Communication.
Take advantage of UC’s eScholarship publishing initiatives.
Invite representatives from the Library to speak about these issues.
Investigate the benefits of UC's memberships with open access publishers such as BioMed Central (BMC) and Public Library of Science (PLoS), and with fair-priced publishers such as BioOne, Cognet, and SPARC.
Support the Library by participating in library events and in publisher negotiations.