University of California Press Receives Green Designation from SHERPA/RoMEO
New author agreements from UC Press Journals allow for institutional archiving of pre-prints and post-prints.
Berkeley, Calif. (PRWEB) August 21, 2005 -- University of California Press, a leading university publisher in the humanities and social sciences, today announced revisions to its core- and partner-journal author agreements that allow authors much greater freedom to archive their work.
The new agreements are emblematic of UC Press' commitment to support its authors and have resulted in a Green designation for UC Press in the SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright and Self-Archiving classification system. UC Press Journals Authors are now freely able to archive their pre-prints and post-prints in institutional and personal archives as well as in free discipline-specific repositories.
"UC Press, through its new copyright policies, will be effectively contributing to the dissemination of the original ideas and scholarly creations that it helps make possible. The editors of Federal Sentencing Reporter are excited by the new policy and thankful UC Press works hard to remain on the forefront of academic publishing," commented Doug Berman, Managing Editor of Federal Sentencing Reporter.
"As new business models unsettle the foundations on which traditional scholarly publishing is based, it becomes that much more important for University of California Press not to lose sight of its mission--to disseminate scholarship to the largest possible audience and to work closely with the public university system that it serves," said Rebecca Simon, Associate Director for the Journals & Digital Publishing Division of University of California Press. "The revisions to our author agreements, enabling authors to self-archive their work in repositories such as the California Digital Library's eScholarship, make this mission easier to accomplish."
UC Press is also pleased to announce the launch of its new author resource section as part of its website. Authors will now have a single location for finding information on a variety of topics related to publishing with UC Press. Information on understanding copyright issues, handling permission requests, requesting reprints, and much more will be available. For more information please visit: http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/authors
To view SHERPA/RoMEO's publisher copyright and self-archiving policies, visit http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php.
About University of California Press:
Established in 1893, University of California Press has grown over the past century to become one of the most reputable and distinguished university publishers in the United States. UC Press publishes a full spectrum of distinguished works, from inventive first books by young academics to journals expressing the results of the research and creative thinking of many of the world's foremost scholars. The Journals and Digital Publishing Division of the Press currently publishes 54 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in musicology, history, cultural studies, sociology, law, and area studies. The Journals and Digital Publishing Division has publishing partnerships with a number of scholarly societies, including the American Anthropological Association, with which UC Press has launched AnthroSource®, an innovative digital collection of core anthropological scholarship.
AnthroSource® is a registered trademark of the American Anthropological Association.
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