#SANLiC2019 Pathways to Open Access   the University of California Experience   Jeffrey MacKie Mason
Channel: SANLiC Director
Date: 2019-07-12

Keynote address at the #SANLiC2019 Conference - 25 June:

Following the 12th Berlin Open Access Conference in 2015, and the release of the OA2020 Expression of Interest, the University of California Academic Senate and Libraries set forth to develop a new commitment to rapid transformation of the scholarly publishing industry to accomplish universal open access.  The first step was to develop a coalition in agreement on objectives, strategies and tactics.  This was achieved and announced in several published documents in the first months of 2018, including Pathways to Open Access.  The coalition then launched strategic initiatives to deliver on the ambitious goals.  In this session Jeffrey will review how the coalition was built, the strategic roadmap they developed, and their first year of actions, including a brief report on their negotiations with publishers to obtain transformative agreements.

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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