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Marian the Librarian writes:
UCSF is among the first public institutions to adopt an open access policy and the largest scientific institution to have such a policy. The policy, voted unanimously by the faculty, will allow UCSF authors to put electronic versions of their published scientific articles on an open access repository making their research findings freely available to the public.
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submission
Marian the Librarian writes:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG), who publish the prestigious journal Nature along with 67 affiliated journals, has proposed a 400% increase in the price of its license to the University of California. UC is poised to just say no to exhorbitant price gouging. If UC walks, the faculty are willing to stage a boycott; they could, potentially decline to submit papers to NPG journals , decline to review for them and resign from their editorial boards. See: http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/06/09/letter-to-uc-faculty-on-nature-publishing-group-subscription-increases/ and the Chronicle of Higher Education article (behind a paywall, alas): http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
