Hello all,

We mentioned that this is maybe 2-3 months out in a faculty meeting but they pressed us on specifics.

Can someone tell me who is working on the CDL’s OA publishing agreements<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/publishing-discounts/> journal look up tool ?

I was looking through a few OSC meeting notes but wasn’t finding mention.

Do any of you know? 

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Hi All,

Happy Friday!

The UCSB Library has a new position opening.: Open Science Research &
Engagement Librarian: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02739
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02739__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!IkeEYE5AGnzsyJQYyOjFwJIgLG5S3m3r2Q0mzZ4cVTNGsuXP5MhYVow-BCDO8FUzBbnBuCoGFlQYbw$>

Please feel free to spread the word to any interested candidates.

Best,

Since I was the owner of the old Zoom meeting, I've created a new one for us that doesn't have the waiting room requirement. The invitation is pasted in below, and if you use Outlook you can use the attached .ics file. Our passcode is 960252; if you use the long link below you shouldn't even need it.
Sadly, I was unable to designate non-UCOP co-hosts. 

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Hello all,

It's time for your occasional reminder that the OSC site links to various campus library websites, and those pages occasionally get stale. Will you take a look at this page and let me know what changes you'd like me to make for links on your campus?
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/campus-resources/

Our CKG wiki is linked at the bottom of the page, and of course that's been broken for a while. Unless and until we have a long term replacement, I'm inclined to leave it, but let me know if you have another idea.
Best,
Katie 

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Hello SCCKG members,

Our upcoming SCCKG meeting will be April 17. Details are as follows:

*Time*: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 1-2 p.m. Pacific

*Zoom link*: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

*Notes*: Please put your campus and crossover group updates in the notes doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmLhpGOOuGxHZ6Zdx3uF_5TFsRnKQwrNWSj0j0yQNQA/edit?usp=sharing>
(the wiki is still out of commission)

*Deep Dive Topic*: *Presidential Open Access Policy Implementation Update*
– The Presidential Open Access Policy has been implemented across all UC
campuses! The CDL shall chat about the current status of system-wide open
access policy implementation and discuss how rollout and ongoing
participation has been going on campuses and systemwide. They also shall
 

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Hi SCCKGers. Please join the Bay Area Open Science Group on April 23 for its next event (open to all):

Bay Area Open Science Group - Supporting an Open Source Software Journal: Strategies for Effective Editing and Engagement (Tue April 23rd, 2-3pm)

This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will be joined by Kelly L. Rowland. Kelly will discuss her experiences as editor for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), a journal dedicated to publishing articles about open source research software across domains. JOSS’ scope includes software that solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context, supports the 

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Hi SCCKG:

RE: *The Right To Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance
and Public Access*
https://sites.google.com/ucop.edu/the-right-to-deposit/home

I know this is happening on April 16. Neither I nor Rachael can attend. Can
someone who's planning on going take and share notes from it? It says the
webinar will not be recorded.

Thanks!
tim

--
Timothy Vollmer (he/him)
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Hello CKG!

This list contains the greatest concentration of folks I semi-regularly hear from, so I wanted to let you know about my upcoming vacation. I'll be out of the office from 4/23 to 5/8. We're going to Scotland to visit my stepdaughter who's in university there, and I will definitely NOT be checking my email. So if something comes up next week that you want to talk to me about, send it next week rather than waiting! And if something comes up while I'm out, lean on each other. You're a knowledgeable group. 🙂
-Katie 

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Ironically, I was denied access to read until I logged into VPN…

https://www.science.org/content/article/bold-bid-avoid-open-access-fees-gates-foundation-says-grantees-must-post-preprints

“Starting in 2025, the foundation will require grantees to post as preprints all manuscripts that result from research it funds. It will also stop paying for researchers to publish their papers in journals that charge a fee to make papers free. 

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Hi Scholarly Communication Common Knowledge Group:

The blog post and/or other related resources below might be interesting for
a SCCKG deep dive in the following months.

Tim

*Blog post: Transitional Agreements Aren’t Working: What Comes Next?*
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/04/04/transitional-agreements-arent-working-what-comes-next/
authored by Alison Muddit, CEO of PLOS

*Jisc report: A review of transitional agreements in the UK*
https://zenodo.org/records/10787392

*Webinar recording: Unveiling the Impact of Transformative Agreements on
Scholarly Publishing*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=easaN3dSZjs
with presentations from Amy Devenney (co-author of the Jisc report) and
Wilhelm Widmark (Stockholm University Library) 

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Hi all,

Our next SCCKG meeting is March 20. Here are the joining info and topic:

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 1-2pm Pacific
*Zoom link*: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

Please add your campus and crossover group updates to notes doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmLhpGOOuGxHZ6Zdx3uF_5TFsRnKQwrNWSj0j0yQNQA/edit?usp=sharing>
(the wiki is still down).

*Deep Dive Topic*: Bibliometrics and research impact support -- Michael
Ladisch will give an overview of the findings of a UC Davis taskforce
exploring the possibility of a streamlined service, and we hope everyone
will share and discuss what they are doing on their campuses. 

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With thanks to Katie for getting this up so quickly, Tim and I can share
this new OSC post
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2024/03/fair-use-tdm-ai-restrictive-agreements/>
on the importance of negotiating to preserve AI use and training rights in
our license agreements. (Tweet:
https://x.com/UCB_ScholComm/status/1767672004960977032?s=20)

We are happy to answer any questions.

Best,
Rachael

Hi all,

Thank you for the great discussion today!

I have copied the slide deck for the Open Access Support presentation that I use at Davis into the shared Google Drive. I have removed the Davis specific slides.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/144hOZGQN8bNSYq5eNyHAAIhs-qd_LWd0/edit#slide=id.p1

Best
Michael

Hi all,

Our next SCCKG meeting will be February 21. Here are the details:

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 1-2pm PDT
*Zoom link:* https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

Please add your campus and crossover group updates to notes doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmLhpGOOuGxHZ6Zdx3uF_5TFsRnKQwrNWSj0j0yQNQA/edit?usp=sharing>
(the wiki is still currently down for unresolved issues).

*Deep Dive Topic: *Guest Jessica Nusbaum will lead a conversation about the
UCOLASC charge to promote the transformative agreements and how that is
going with our campus COLASCs and libraries 

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Hi all,

At our next meeting on Feb 21 we will have Jessica Nussbaum joining us. You may remember that she in her role as PTWG Communication person attended the SCCKG meeting a few months ago to talk about partnering of local COLASCs and libraries in order to educate on and promote the UC transformative agreements on campus. 

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Hi all,

This is to remind you on our next SCCKG meeting on

Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 1-2 pm

Web

https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/236485718<https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>

Phone

+1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)

Meeting ID

236 485 718

Unfortunately, the Wiki is still not accessible for UC affiliates outside of UCSF (thank you, Anneliese, for downloading files for us) and will not be for at least 6 weeks. We have created a folder within our Google Shared Drive for ScholComm Resource Sharing. It is called SCCKG Meetings and Work<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T8FXIxwGDa1kLjbQaAwWU0J0Af_rgBUJ?usp=sharing>. This may or may not be temporary – that’s an agenda item. 

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Hi all,

The CKG Wiki space that we use for our meeting notes and other things is still unavailable for users outside of UCSF. This does not only apply to the ScholComm Wiki, but all other CKGs as well.

I’m in touch with the Wiki administrator who explained that they have to fix some security issues. She estimates that it will take +/- 6 weeks to make the Wiki available for non-UCSF users again. 

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Hello, colleagues. If any of you is on the LIB-LICENSE listserv, you'll
find that many librarians are confused about what training AI means, how
fair use fits in, and what is needed from e-Resource license agreements to
protect scholars' TDM and AI rights. Building on our submission to the
Copyright Office
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNvynoekNREUhLA_h5AqE5HzVuTxymQm/view> and
our CNI closing plenary, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABziVkLAm0> our
office has tried to clear the fog in this blog post
<https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/01/10/licensing-research-content-via-agreements-that-authorize-uses-of-artificial-intelligence/>.
We provide some sample TDM license language that is inclusive of AI
training as well. 

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Hi SCCKG:

Several UC library folks attended the Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI) Fall 2023 meeting in Washington, D.C. Below are recordings to a few
of the sessions related to scholarly communication.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend,

Tim

*Closing Plenary -- Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A
Panel and Community Conversation*

Rachael G. Samberg, University of California, Berkeley
Heather Sardis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & bioRxiv and medRxiv
Moderator: Clifford Lynch, CNI
https://youtu.be/9ABziVkLAm0?si=sQt8TPgSwNQbv6ID
https://vimeo.com/894657305?share=copy
*Open Book Collective: Collective Paths Toward an Open and Sustainable
Ecosystem for Monographs*
Lidia Uziel, University of 

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Hi all,

As Martha already mentioned, the Wiki is down and I have contacted the Wiki administrators at UCSF. Here is the response:

Dec 15, 2023 - Wiki@UCSF is currently accessible only from UCSF network (VPN and onsite) as we patch the system and as we review current configuration. Please advise collaborators in other UC campuses. 

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Hi all,

The last SCCKG meeting of the year is this week on December 20. Here are
the specifics:

Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 1-2pm PDT

Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/Scholarly+Communications+CKG>
(currently down for unresolved issues and hopefully will be back up soon!).

*Deep Dive Topic: *

- Reports out from this year's Charleston Conference from participants
who attended from our SCCKG 

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https://retractionwatch.com/2023/12/06/wiley-to-stop-using-hindawi-name-amid-18-million-revenue-decline/

Hello SCCKG colleagues. UCSF subscribes to the Dimensions Analytics<https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication> database from Digital Science, paid for by our Research Development Office. The Library is partnering with RDO by supporting users, setting up training, and helping with the renewal, Digital Science wants to raise the annual price pretty substantially, so I'm interested in finding out if there's any leverage we can get through a Tier 2 subscription. 

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FYI --

https://www.infodocket.com/2023/11/22/now-available-from-ostp-report-to-congress-on-financing-mechanisms-for-open-access-publishing-of-federally-funded-research/

PDF of report:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Open-Access-Publishing-of-Scientific-Research.pdf

I haven't read it yet, but hope to take a look soon.

Tim

Hi everyone. Here are the details for this week’s SCCKG meeting:

Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/June+21%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
Deep Dive Topic:

* Artificial Intelligence and Fair Use – Rachael and Tim from UCB will talk about the UCB Library response<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNvynoekNREUhLA_h5AqE5HzVuTxymQm/view> to the Copyright Office’s inquiry regarding fair use and training artificial intelligence
* Additional reading (if you have time)
* Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law<https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10922> (Congressional Research Service)
* US court ruling on copyright for art created by AI<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/24/an-old-master-no-its-an-image-ai-just-knocked-up-and-it-cant-be-copyrighted> (The Guardian)
* Copyright and Generative 

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Hi SCCKG,

Please see the message below from Jessica Nusbaum as a follow-up to her
talk at our September meeting.

Thank you,
Martha

Hi all,

I have transferred the SCCKG Charter to a Google doc to enable editing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lFY3waU0mtdgHtHEEGAvwRg56L2hPLrsqixUqkJyh-Y/edit

If you have some time, please have a look to see what needs to be changed/updated. I have started, using suggestion mode (please use this mode as well)

Best
Michael

Hello SC-CKG Friends,

I am writing to announce the launch of a new online resource, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-scholarly-communication/>, developed by the University of California Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC).

Please share with your communities who interact with publishing however you feel is appropriate. Some ideas for sharing include: 

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You've probably seen this floating around the listservs, but if not:
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/newsreleases/2023/september/acs-publications-provides-new-option-to-support-zero-embargo-green-open-access.html

To ensure a sustainable model of delivering services from submission to
> final editorial decision, ACS Publications is introducing an article
> development charge (ADC) as part of this new zero-embargo green open access
> option.

Sally Rumsey provides a critique over at the Coalition-S blog:
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/american-chemical-society-acs-and-authors-rights-retention/

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Hello all,

As I mentioned in today's meeting:

1) I'm setting myself a regular reminder to check in with you all about the Campus Resources<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/campus-resources/> page. This is the result of the first of those reminders! Please take a look at the page and let me know if the list of links for your campus needs to be updated.
As an FYI, the working group's housekeeping has deleted the other campus contact page(s) on the site, so now there's just this one place to keep current. At least on the OSC site... 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for this week’s SCCKG meeting:

· Wednesday, November 18, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
· Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
· Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/June+21%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
· Announcement: Welcoming Michele Potter (UCR) as a new member of our group
· Topics:

* Katie will talk about the OSC webpage “Get the Word Out<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/get-the-word-out/>” and a new home for the material.
* Short discussion on responses (if there are any) and impact of the IEEE agreement cancellation<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2023/10/uc-to-end-funding-support-for-open-access-publishing-with-ieee-in-2024/>
* Review and discussion of the SCCKG Charter<https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SCG_CKG_Charter.pdf>
* Does the charter need an update 

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This could be pretty interesting for folks following copyright and
artificial intelligence. I believe the signups are open to all.

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2023-rt-copyright-ai/

Tim

Hi SCCKG colleagues:

UC Berkeley Library's Office of Scholarly Communication Services is hosting
a panel on November 9 on the topic of how to turn your dissertation into a
book.

*From Dissertation to Book: Navigating the Publication Process*
Nov 9, 11a-12:30p, Zoom
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11279072

The LibCal event requires UCB credentials to sign up, but if you know any
students or early career faculty that would be interested to join, *I can
easily add them to our calendar event directly, which has the Zoom details*
. 

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And so once again I will ask you all:
Do you have Open Access Week webinars, panels, blog posts, video games, or anything else you would like included in this year's OSC blog post?

When replying about an event, please let me know:
-if it has a web page I can link to, or will be able to link to by 10/18
-if it's for your campus community specifically, or open to all. 

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Colleagues, I give up. I've been up writing a blasted Copyright Office NOI
response at 3:30 a.m. every day and my workplace is very difficult. Would a
kind soul be willing or able to forward me the 2016 or 2017 UC Annual
Report that (I think in like section 9, 10, or 12 if memory serves)
demonstrates that we publish 9% of global journal scholarship? Or anything
more recent with the number? Honestly I think the UCOP site with historical
reports is down, and my mind is just absolutely fried anyway. 

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Hi everyone,

Saw Josh’s post on linkedIn and am really looking forward to reading Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge, especially the chapters by our colleagues, Charlotte and Mark!

https://lisoer.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2023/09/21/679/

Allegra

Allegra Swift | Scholarly Communications Librarian
UC San Diego Library | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-6960<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-6960__;!!Mih3wA!T4VGrOddoXVXKPPma1Jsrb8K48j5_4YLcieiGQd8hdzHjhbBDT0Tuwc0YsL7fljm$>
Pronouns: she, her, hers / Why do pronouns matter<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/__;!!Mih3wA!T4VGrOddoXVXKPPma1Jsrb8K48j5_4YLcieiGQd8hdzHjhbBDT0Tuwc0YkZ8I60b$>?

Meet: here's my calendar link<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/calendly.com/akswift__;!!Mih3wA!T4VGrOddoXVXKPPma1Jsrb8K48j5_4YLcieiGQd8hdzHjhbBDT0Tuwc0YmeRYxWX$> to make finding time easy. 

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Hi everyone,

Here are the details for our next SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 1-2pm PDT

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=UCLCKG&title=September+20%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic:* Open Access Fall Author Outreach and Communications
Strategy (Guest: Jessica Nussbaum – PTWG Communication Group)

- *Additional discussion item:* Survey for potential systemwide resource
purchases 

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Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone in the UC has in place an open access collection
development policy or a set of principles they can share, like the one from
Emory: https://libraries.emory.edu/media/4631.

Thank you all in advance!

Best,

Hello all,

I have a question for you about aligning RIMs. I feel like this question might be coming your way as well.

You may or may not have heard that UCOLASC Chair, John Hildebrand (UCSD SIO) is pushing for compliance on the UC OA policy as a way for increasing participation in the TAs, OA publishing, and eScholarship. 

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FYI
https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2023/08/the-rights-of-uc-authors-are-at-stake-heres-what-we-are-doing-about-it.html

Hello SCCKG wisdom. Do you have any guidelines for UC researchers who are entering into an editing agreement for a book? I've had a couple of people ask if the contract they've been asked to sign looks ok or if they're allowed to sign it. Since it's not about their writing but rather their work editing other authors' work, it's a different kind of contract. I haven't seen a model or ideal contract in this area so I'm wondering if there are red flags to look out for or things that we should encourage them to modify. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for this week’s SCCKG meeting:

* Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
* Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
* Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/June+21%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
* Announcement: Welcoming Amanda Karby (CDL) as a new member of our group
* Deep dive topic: “Collect and Share your Publications<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/collect-and-share-your-publications/>” – a new toolkit to help secure the academic legacy of authors with long publication lists. Katie will provide background to the project, answer questions, and collect feedback (please check out the toolkit in advance of the meeting, if possible)
* UCB is 

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Hello CKG,

A recent OSC working group was tasked with answering the question "what kind of self-service help can we provide for authors with long publication lists (usually emeriti) who come to us looking for guidance about getting all their old stuff on eScholarship?" My fellow group members and I eventually came up with a guide that's been living, quietly, on the OSC site for a few months now:
Collect and share your publications<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/collect-and-share-your-publications/> 

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FYI
https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2023/08/01/jsc-survey-new-resources-and-oa-investments-announcement/

In email from a faculty, they asked if the library could ensure perpetual access to the back catalog of Design Studies a premier journal in the field The journal is looking for a new home because of mismanagement by Elsevier,.

The entire editorial board has resigned, the Design Research Society, which founded and sponsors the journal, has severed ties, and it looks like many authors are withdrawing papers in the pipeline. 

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Hi everyone,

Here are the details for next week’s SCCKG meeting:
· Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
· Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
· Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/June+21%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
· Deep dive topic:

* We though that a discussion of the B16 Open Access Conference Report would be of interest. This conference, with participation from UC, “was held as a strategy meeting of global actors in research communication committed to advancing viable strategies to replace the subscription paywall model underlying the bulk of today’s scholarly journals with transparent and sustainable models that deliver immediate 

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Sorry, Mitchell, for the cut-off. The last thing I heard was that you put something …. (in the chat?) Could you share it by email?

Great meeting today! Thanks everyone, and especially Allegra and Anneliese!

Best
Michael

TO SC CKG

A draft document of a new UC Irvine "Open Access Publication Pilot Program to Support UC Irvine Monograph Authors"
https://www.lib.uci.edu/support-uc-irvine-monograph-authors

The details of the evaluation criteria and number of projects funded are still new. The program begins July 1, 2023.

With thanks,

Mitchell

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Mitchell C. Brown, MLIS
Scholarly Communications Coordinator
Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science, and Russian Studies
University of California Irvine Libraries<http://www.lib.uci.edu/>
230 Science Library
P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557
ZOT Code 8200-40 [iD_15x15] 0000-0002-3366-1281<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3366-1281>
Schedule appointments: http://spaces.lib.uci.edu/appointments/dss
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 949-824-9732

Hi everyone. Here are the details for tomorrow's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 1-2pm PDT

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/June+21%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic: *Review of new OSC web resource Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-scholarly-communication/>

- *Additional discussion item: *SCLG developed DEI questions for
resource evaluations (please see email below from Sarah McClung) 

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https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.612

FYI, it's related to our occasional discussion on impacts of transformative
agreements on library workers on the ground. It seems that—unlike our
situation at UC—the Swedish librarians have a fairly hands-on role in
verifying authors and approving articles to be covered by their
transformative agreements. There is some overlap in tasks, particularly
around author education and helping answer questions about TAs. 

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Hi all,

Our Special Collections department is digitizing older dissertation/theses to make them available open access on HathiTrust. They ask the authors for permission to do so.

Most authors agree apparently (many are flattered that “my dissertation from 1982 is of interest!” 😊). But in some disciplines there are dissertations that include author’s previously published articles in scholarly journals. And these authors ask me about the copyright situation since the copyright, especially in the old pre-OA days, was transferred to the publisher. The authors don’t want to contact the publisher to ask for permission to make the work OA and 

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FYI, from Authors Alliance.
https://authorsalliance.substack.com/p/read-your-open-access-publishing

> publishing agreements do provide what many authors want in OA
> publishing–free online access and broad reuse rights to users. But, if
> authors select the wrong option, they are also giving away their own
> residual rights while granting Elsevier or Wiley the *exclusive *right to
> commercially exploit their work. That includes the right for those
> publishers to exclude the author herself from making or authorizing even
> the most basic of commercial uses, such as posting the article to a
> for-profit repository like Researchgate or even SSRN. This is 

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We are excited to announce a job opportunity for the Instruction & Exhibits
Librarian <https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01494> at University of California
Santa Cruz. In support of research and teaching, the Instruction and
Exhibitions Librarian is responsible for coordinating exhibitions,
instruction, programming, and reference for Special Collections & Archives.

We will host two informational webinars to learn more about the position,
the campus, and the University Library. If interested, please register
using the links provided: 

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Good morning,

At Irvine the library works with Graduate Division on the review and author submission of Ph.D. and Masters theses/dissertations to ProQuest as part of the Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations.

A question came out during discussions about workflow about print submissions. The figures I have are a few years old but in ten years of data I have for our campus OA dissertation policies prior to 2020 there were only 5 or 6 printed dissertations submitted to Special Collections for cataloging. As a result of the small numbers, Irvine is looking to remove the option 

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Hello, SCCKG. Sharing an upcoming Bay Area Open Science Group meeting that's open to all:

SciHub and ChatGPT<https://calendars.library.ucsf.edu/event/10762723>
Tuesday, June 27, from 2:00-3:00 pm

Join the Bay Area Open Science Group this month for an informal conversation about “open” information focusing on ChatGPT and SciHub. What do these tools have in common? What do they say about the future of scientific information access and open science? 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:
· Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
· Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
· Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/March+15%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
· Deep dive topic: Publication Ethics

* There were a number of reports lately about “unethical” fees or publisher behavior, so Tim and I thought this would be of broader interest. We have two articles in particular in mind, but other issues might come up as well.
* ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
* Wiley Removes Goodin 

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Hi all,

My 3 yr term as the LAUC rep at SLASIAC<https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/slasiac/> is coming to a close this coming June. I hope one of you will seek the spot, I just learned today that there is only one expression of interest. There is so much discussed that directly correlates to our work. 

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FYI -
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/

Anna Stilz (Princeton), a member of the *Journal of Political
Philosophy* editorial
board and editor-in-chief of *Philosophy & Public* Affairs, shared parts of
an email she sent to fellow editorial board members.

*Like many of you, I wrote earlier today to resign from Wiley’s Editorial
Board… But now I’d just like to second [the complaint about] Wiley’s
unreasonable demands and to add my perspective as Editor-in-Chief of*
Philosophy
and Public Affairs*, another Wiley-owned journal.* 

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Hi all,

Those of you who provide copyright guidance to your community might appreciate this NYT collection of landmark copyright case regarding music.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/music/music-copyright-lawsuits-ed-sheeran-blurred-lines.html

Best
Michael

Elsevier: NeuroImage transition - all editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience 😊
https://imaging-neuroscience.org/

Best
Michael

Hello everyone,

Tim and I have a few potential deep dive topics lined up, but none of them is, for various reasons, quite ready to be brought up for discussion. So we thought cancelling the meeting on Wednesday would be the best option.

Could you still provide campus updates on our wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/March+15%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda> so that our group is in the loop about activities? 

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Hi Folks,

I’m proud to share that the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ) has now flipped to open access with the eScholarship Publishing program. Here’s the official announcement: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2023/04/aicrj-flips-to-open-access/

Thank you for Jen Chan and Marty Brennan for your work on this!

Best,
Charlotte

Hi SCCKG:

Just sharing this article as an FYI:
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:52287/

Samuel Moore has an interesting preprint on the political economy of rights
retention policies in scholarly publishing. Of course it's getting much
more attention in the last few years—particularly in Europe—because of
requirements under Plan S.

Tim

--
Timothy Vollmer
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Pronouns: he/him

Just FYI--looks like a decent sized grant to support OA book publishing
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-book-futures-announcement/release/1

tim

Hi all,

That’s an interesting and very detailed blog post about the pros and cons of MDPI. It’s along read and the post has already 145 comments …
https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/

Best
Michael

Hi all:

I'm guessing some of us have already been following this, but if you
haven't, check out the following articles which recap yesterday's oral
argument in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit regarding controlled
digital lending. The judge didn't make a decision on the motions for
summary judgment yesterday. But a decision could happen soon, or the case
could be pushed to trial. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 1-2pm PDT

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/March+15%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic: Transformative agreements & impacts on campus
library staff*
- Updates from campuses: How are you dealing with staffing/capacity
in answering questions and providing outreach to faculty & researchers?
- What are common challenges (and potential recommendations) that we
experience, and how to communicate the impact of this ongoing workload
- How can schol-comm librarians on the ground (us) both 

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FYI
https://libraries.mit.edu/news/libraries-support-3/34036/

Hi all,

One of my colleagues found this in Twitter:

https://twitter.com/davidacrotty/status/1625887947357577217

Springer Nature will stop depositing automatically to PMC/EuroPMC unless the authors pays for OA. The new OSTP Memo starts to have an impact …

Best
Michael

Dear All,

I’m working with my colleagues, Annie Johnson and Maria Aghazarian, to conduct an anonymous survey to examine how people in scholarly communications positions experience and adjust to change. We are also interested in understanding the extent to which scholarly communication workers feel that they do or do not receive support and resources from peers and upper administrators. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 1-2pm PST

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/February+15%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic*: *Campus level publishing/OA support for arts &
humanities/social sciences (AHSS)*
- What are major concerns/challenges UC AHSS scholars are facing re:
scholarly publishing? How have you approached these conversations with
faculty & researchers?
- Are there things your campus is doing to promote open access
publishing to the AHSS community? Do you have special
initiatives that are
focused on 

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Hello all. The February 28 session of the Bay Area Open Science Group<https://bayareaopensciencegroup.github.io/> features a topic that may be of interest to you. Online from 2-3 pm and open to all:

This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will discuss "Building Blocks for Impact" - a one-pager that outlines and illustrates the wide variety of academic achievements and outcomes that could be considered “impactful”. This model visualizes “impact” on two dimensions: scale of contributions’ influence and new types of audiences. We will be joined by Ruth Schmidt, an associate professor at the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech, 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:
· Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 1-2pm PDT
· Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
· Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/January+18%2C+2023+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
· Agenda and deep dive topic:

* Welcoming and introducing Miranda Bennett
* Updates on OSTP Memo “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”
* Progress updates and feedback on the Scholarly Communication Resources Collection project
· UCR is the note-taker.
See you all then. 

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Hi all,

Does anyone know who at CDL would be the person to talk to regarding the Initiative for Open Citations<https://i4oc.org/>? CDL is a supporting institution and Daniella Lowenberg posted something at UC3<https://uc3.cdlib.org/2017/04/06/california-digital-library-supports-the-initiative-for-open-citations-2/>. But Daniella is not at CDL anymore.

And are there any campus initiatives (promotion, workshops, online information) on open citations? 

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Dear All,

I am pleased to let you know that UCSB is hiring an Open Access Collection
Strategist.

Please see the full job announcement and instructions for applying at
https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02255.

Applications received by Monday, Jan 16, 2023, will receive first
consideration. Inquiries regarding the Open Access Collection
Strategist position may be directed to me at [log in to unmask]

Please feel free to share it with your professional networks. Also, if you
know anyone who might be interested in this opportunity, please let me know. 

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Hi SCCKG:

We have just a few follow ups after yesterday's meeting.

1. We've decided to *cancel* the Dec 21, 2022 meeting since it's so close
to the holiday break. We'll reconvene on Jan 18, 2023.

2. We polled the group about SCCKG taking on a small project to collect
instructional/informational materials created by members (slide decks,
videos, flyers, posters etc.) and host them in a central location for reuse
by other SCCKG members. The results indicated that most people think it's a
good idea and should be managed by a committee. *If you can contribute to
the group (should 

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Hi SCCKG,

I'm hoping that you may have some input on a publishing conundrum!

An Emeritus Professor in Sociology at UCSC wants to publish an edited
volume of essays written by prisoners in Soledad through a UCSC project and
course. We discussed publishing it on eScholarship. However, his
department, which is Sociology, does not have a research unit in
eScholarship. We currently do not have a Social Sciences Division liaison
in the Library, though I may still try reaching out to the Sociology
Department myself to find a contact who could be an administrator for a new
unit. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 1-2pm PST

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/November+16%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic*: Group discussion about the OSTP memo *Ensuring
Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf>*
and its potential implications for UC and Libraries
- Background reading
<https://www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/zero-embargo/> (please read or
skim beforehand)
- Also of potential interest: there is a listening session Nov 16,
11am PST hosted by ARL and ACRL on the OSTP policy guidance. You 

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Just an FYI--this is a pretty interesting history that I was only vaguely
aware of.

https://help.hathitrust.universityofcalifornia.edu/support/solutions/articles/9000220606-how-uc-s-hathtrust-collections-were-built

Also this paragraph really drives home the effects of previous
registration/renewal formalities on copyright status.

In 2015, Google introduced new candidate lists to include volumes beyond
those determined to be public domain based on their publication date. These
included selected volumes from the US Renewal Era (1923-1963), which may
not have had a copyright registered or renewed, US Federal government
publications, US state government documents (from states where such
materials are public domain), and various international government
documents. *Google’s decision to include targeted volumes 

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All,

Do you already have a shared folder of author agreements, kindly forwarded
to you from any authors who may have actually downloaded them (unlikely)?

Yes, all journals within a given publisher might theoretically have
different agreements, and yes we can't keep something like that current
because publishers update them all the time -- I don't care about any of
that. I just want at least something that we could consult (in a shared
folder) so that we don't usually have to reinvent the wheel in advising
scholars or preparing presentations if we're curious about what a
"standard" agreement or 

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Here we are:
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2022/10/oa-week-2022/
Let me know if there are any corrections or late additions, and have a good OA Week!
-Katie

Hi all,

In the last SCCKG meeting I mentioned a suggestion from OSC regarding a designated space to collect instructional/informational material that SCCKG members have created for reuse by our group.

The idea is to upload PPTs, videos, brochures, etc. that are currently shared by email or on our wiki pages to a platform like Google Drive or Zenodo, where the material can be broadly organized and then viewed or downloaded. SCCKG members can get inspiration or borrow a graph or reuse the perfect slide for their own material. 

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Hi everyone.

Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

* Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 1-2pm PDT
* Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
* Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/October+19%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
* Deep dive topic: CDL leads discussion about newly increased capacity on the eScholarship Publishing program more broadly.
* UCB is the note-taker. 

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Hi all,
I was out sick for the last CKG meeting, and now I look up and it's October!
I'm not seeing much in the minutes in the way of OA Week (and oa-week-adjacent) activities. Should I put together a post for OSC this year?
I'm happy to write it, if you all just send me links to the events/activities/etc. you'd like me to highlight by EOB next Friday, 10/14. 

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Hello from San Diego!

Next month is the SC CKG deep dive on eScholarship publishing and in advance of that meeting we’d like to get some input from you.

The goal of this 5-question survey is to better understand the scope of publishing activities across the UC library system’s scholarly communication programs. This brief landscape assessment will help us determine current priorities as well as inform conversations around the development of future opportunities and goals for eScholarship publishing. Your responses will also help us to better prepare for the October SC CKG deep dive, where we will present the survey 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 1-2pm PDT

- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718

- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/September+21%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.

- *Deep dive topic*: UC OA Fund Benchmarking survey results (if you
haven't read the short report already, please have a look before the
meeting. It's attached). 

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Hi all,

This ARL panel seems to be of interest for anyone dealing with the new NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy.
https://www.arl.org/event/gearing-up-for-january-2023-institutional-strategies-for-implementing-the-nih-data-management-sharing-policy-free-september-30-webinar-invitation-only/

Though it says “Invitation only” I had no problems to register for free as a guest.

Best
Michael

Hello, colleagues. Do any of you have at your fingertips some references to
leading or recent papers confirming positive effects (either via more
citations or greater "impact" however that is measured) for publishing OA?

I assure you: I'm not a lazy person. I'm just an exhausted person who would
appreciate it if one of her colleagues happened to have a few of these
within arm's reach. 

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Hi all:

This news is going around—the Office of Science and Technology Policy has
released a new directive on *Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access
to Federally Funded Research*
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf>
.

It directs all federal agencies with R&D expenditures to develop (or
update) public access policies to ensure that research publications and
supporting data created with federal funds be made publicly accessible
without an embargo. 

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Hello all,

I hope everyone is enjoying the last bits of summer!

Anneliese and I are sharing the UC Open Access Fund Benchmarking Survey report (attached). Some of the campus respondents expressed interest in having a discussion with this group (Sept 21st meeting) to take a deeper dive into the results and implications for any future decisions. 

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Hi everyone,

Our next week’s SCCKG meeting will be a joint meeting with the Research Data Services CKG.
Here are the details for the meeting:
· Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 1-2pm PDT
· Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
· Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/August+17%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
· UCLA is listed as the note-taker.
Our friends from the RDSCKG have created a Google doc with the agenda (our Wiki page links to it) Please have a look in advance if you have the time. We are looking for a volunteer who could moderate the first discussion point. Let 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for next week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 1-2pm PDT
- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/July+20%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.
- We have a few discussion items, including:
- Brainstorming discussion topics for next month's joint meeting with
the Research Data Services CKG.
- Discussion about potential in-person SCCKG gathering/working
meeting/mini conference.
- Other items you wish to bring up.
- UCSD is listed as the note-taker. 

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Hi folks. UCSF IT services has fixed the error that was preventing non-UCSF users from logging in to wiki pages hosted at https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu. Could I get a couple or three folks to test out logging in from your campus to make sure it's working for you? I recommend logging in using a private or incognito browser window to make sure it's not relying on cached memory. 

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Hi all:

Last year we hosted a joint meeting with the Research Data Services CKG
(formerly called Data Curation). The point of that gathering was to share
information between our respective groups, and discuss topics of mutual
interest.

IMO it was a useful and interesting exercise, and we've been in touch with
the RDS-CKG leads to host it again this year. 

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Hi all. Since there were no suggestions for agenda items or to meet today, SCCKG will not be holding its meeting today at 1pm. See you all on July 20!

Best,
Anneliese

Hello all. Our next SCCKG meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 15 at 1pm PT. Does anyone have a topic they'd like to discuss? Here are the potential topics that have been suggested by group members for future meetings (the UCSF wiki is not accessible right now to non-UCSF, so I'm copying and pasting from our deep dive topics page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/9KiMHg>): 

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Hello SCCKGers! A reminder that my role as our group's co-chair is coming to an end. If you'd like to put your name forward to take on the role for the next two years, please let Tim and me know by Wednesday, June 15. It's a fun position and not too heavy of a lift. Working with Tim is great, and getting to co-chair is the way to go. The positions will switch in July, however the exact date can be flexible according to summer plans. 

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is interested in licensing altmetric. Do any
of you license it?

Thanks,
Rachael

All,

I know some of you are linking (including in blog posts) to UCB's CASE Act
("Small Claims") guidance page. Well, our library did a migration of the
entire library website, and this changed the URLs for all UCB schol comm
pages. So please update your HTML with the new link:
https://lib.berkeley.edu/research/scholarly-communication/copyright?section=small-claims

And generally speaking, all UCB schol comm pages are now linked through
https://lib.berkeley.edu/research/scholarly-communication rather than
lib.berkeley.edu/scholcomm 

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Has anyone encountered the Public Access And Data Sharing Policy for the NCI Cancer Moonshot?
https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/funding/public-access-policy

For publications, awardees have to deposit the full text in PubMed Central within 4 weeks of acceptance, and it must be published under the unrestricted CC BY 4.0 license, or CC0. This is the first I've seen of a U.S. funder that has this near immediate OA requirement. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for this week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 1-2pm PDT
- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/May+18%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.
- This month's deep dive topic will be a demo by new SCCKG member Joe
Ferrie from the California Digital Library of a research discovery tool he
and CDL have been working on.
- UC Santa Cruz is listed as the note-taker. 

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Hello all,

It's been a little over a year since Martha sent out this message about some templates and guidelines our OSC working group put together. Our hope was that they'd make it an easy lift for someone to put together a post for the OSC site highlighting something cool happening locally in the world of OA. 

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Hello, fellow UC SCCKGers! Our April meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, April 20 from 1-2 pm PT. Neither Tim nor I can make the meeting, so I'm putting this message out there to find out if 1) you would like to hold the meeting; and 2) if someone can volunteer to lead the meeting. UC Merced is the designated notetaker. 

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Hi all,
Following a round of revisions from SLASIAC's Standing Subcommittee on Copyright Policy, the UC Copyright site's page on the CCB is now live:
https://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/resources/ccb-small-claims.html

Cheers,
Katie

Hello SCCKG! Questions about both third-party sponsorship and Significant University Resources for a journal article accepted for publication. A UCSF faculty member is questioning whether their article, based on research funded by UCSF and co-authored with an author at a CSU, qualifies as work-for-hire.

As I was preparing to respond "no", and point the faculty to the policy, I got thrown off by the exceptions language in the policy FAQ. 

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Hi everyone. Here are the details for this week's SCCKG meeting:

- Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 1-2pm PDT
- Zoom link: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/March+16%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.
- This month's topic is CDL/systemwide plans for open research
infrastructure investments (Ellen, Rachel, discussion with everyone).
- UC Riverside is the note-taker. 

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CAUTION: This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Hello all,
"Spring 2022" is more or less upon us, which means theoretically the CCB could fire up any day now. I have a draft page for the UC Copyright site I'd like you all to take a look at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dKI9oH2y3T9JumCmavAue_kUbNGalmQ0UJ0N9N2v6QQ/edit?usp=sharing 

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Hello copyright experts. A UCSF author who worked as a PI on a state-funded project would like to re-use quotes from study participants that were included in practice papers based on the project. The authors are preparing a journal article based on the research project, and would like to include some of the quotes. What are the norms and limitations with reusing quotes for this purpose? 

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Hello SCCKG folks:

If you or potential book authors on your campuses are interested in OA book
publishing with Springer, please share the blog post
<https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2022/02/22/getting-your-book-published-open-access-a-panel-discussion-with-springer-nature-and-uc-berkeley/>
(info
copied below) with them. The virtual panel will take place *March 14 from
11a-12:15p PDT. *

-- -- -- -- --
Getting your book published open access: a panel discussion with Springer
Nature and UC Berkeley 

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Hi, all. As I mentioned in the call, the specific text of my e-mail to
authors and the draft letter to publishers (in this case, for fraudulent
editorial board listing) are for your purposes only and not to be
circulated with the campus or schol comm community. We'll be providing the
overall recommendations from both of these in the blog post, but not the
exact language. 

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Hi folks! A reminder for this week's SCCKG meeting:

* Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 1-2pm PT
* Zoom link<https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
* Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the meeting agenda/notes<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/9cblI>
* This month's topic is a review of publishing fraud cases that have occurred at a few of our campuses, and strategies for dealing with fraudulent publishers (Anneliese, Allegra, Rachael, Katie) 

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Hello, SCCKG colleagues! Allegra and I have put together a survey<https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0V6M7R1DZSlUfOK> to collect data from all UC libraries about open access funds. By this we mean a pool of funds where individual faculty, students, or other campus individuals can request funds to help them pay for article processing charges, book processing charges, or open educational resources. 

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Dear all,

I am forwarding the request below from my colleague Rebecca Metzger. Please
feel free to answer to the list or directly to Rebecca.

Best,
Lidia

***

Dear Scholarly Communication CKG,

I am the chair of UCSB Library's new Open & Affordable Course Materials
Committee. Since there is no OER-related CKG at this time, I hope you don't
mind me sending this query to your list. Open Education Week is coming up
on March 7-11. I am wondering whether any UC Libraries are planning virtual
programming (eg. webinars, panel discussions, etc.) that can be opened up
to other UCs? 

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Who holds copyright to a dissertation where the author dies if they haven’t included copyright in their will? https://copyrightalliance.org/what-happens-to-your-copyrights-after-you-die/ . Do heirs automatically receive copyright if not, who would you approach for access? What are al y’all doing with the emeriti project – I realize most of the copyright in this case would be held by the publisher… 

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Hello all,

I have the go-ahead to hire a student worker or two to help me with tasks such as rights clearance and copyediting/reformatting. Does anyone have job ads they can share?

* I have an OER author working out her 3rd edition and needs some cleanup in the formatting, so skills in InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, or similar tools.
* I also have a new journal where the work would be to set up a template for submissions and reformat existing files to the new template. In addition, there needs to be some permissions work (authors hold copyright) to move 

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Hello SCCKG. You and your colleagues are invited to a presentation by Dr. Biftu Mengesha on February 22nd at 2pm PT, sponsored by the Bay Area Open Science Group:

Join us as we get together virtually with colleagues at Stanford and Berkeley to learn about Innovating Education in Reproductive Health, a project from the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health to create free curricula and learning tools about sexual and reproductive health. Director Dr. Biftu Mengesha will give us a short overview of the project including where the idea came from, how they created the videos, and what the 

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Hi all. When it comes to author rights under the UC OA policies, I frequently relay that authors have the right to deposit their final accepted manuscripts immediately upon publication, without an embargo period. This is often contradicted by author publication agreements, which state that this version may be made available on a website or in the IR after a 12-month or some other embargo period. So I'll refer the author to the OSC FAQ <https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/policy-faq/#:~:text=My%20publisher%E2%80%99s%20policy%20says%20_____________%2C%20which%20is%20different%20from%20UC%E2%80%99s%20OA%20policies.> that explains this discrepancy. 

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Happy new year, SCCKG. We have our first meeting of 2022 coming up in one
week.

- Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 1-2pm PST
- Zoom link <https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/January+19%2C+2022+SCCKG+Meeting+Agenda>
- Deep dive: new Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemption
related to text data mining and how it affects UC researchers
<https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23311/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control>
- UC Santa Cruz is the note-taker 

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Happy New Year, SCCKG! A UCSF author has concerns over this phrase in a journal article publication agreement:

You will keep us and our affiliates indemnified in full against all loss, damages, injury, costs and expenses (including legal and other professional fees and expenses) awarded against or incurred or paid by us as a result of your breach of the warranties given in this 

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This may be old news to many of you, but I recently got an email inviting me to publish with Academia Letters, a new (?) OA initiative from Academia.com.

https://www.academia.edu/letters/about

It’s not an especially innovative approach, but Academia.com caters to a large enough audience that maybe this turns into something important.

Donald

Hello, and thank you all for a great meeting yesterday. A special thanks to Martha for suggesting and leading the plagiarism software topic (with apologies for running short on time), and to Allegra for taking notes<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/txzYHw> during the meeting. A link to the slides for both Martha's and my presentations have been added to the notes on the wiki. 

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Hi SCCKG colleagues! I'm curious what you all think about Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press's offer for a journal transformative agreement of sorts. This offer was sent to our Head of Collection Development. Here are the highlights from CSHL, with my notes added in brackets in green (full language attached): 

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Hi folks! A reminder that our last monthly SCCKG meeting of the year takes place next week:

* Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 1-2pm PT
* Zoom link<https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
* Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/txzYHw>
* This month's topics are:
* Updates to UCSF's Open Access Fund and a heads-up about an upcoming UC OA fund benchmarking survey (Anneliese)
* Plagiarism software used by publishers (Martha)
* There are a couple newsy pre-read suggestions for this topic:
* Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00893-5>
* Self-plagiarism, fraud, and iThenticate: A complicated relationship 

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The Bay Area Open Science Group is hosting the following session via Zoom on Tuesday, November 30 from 2-3 pm Pacific. All are welcome to join!

Open peer review is the least practiced aspect of open science. Yet it may teach us a lot about how manuscripts can change from their submitted version to their (peer-reviewed) published version of record. Mario Malički from Stanford will give an overview of 21 studies that analyzed manuscript changes and their own study in which they analyzed changes between 121 epidemiology preprints and their subsequent published versions. Finally, Mario will present a call for 

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Just FYI:

If you're looking to get more involved in library public policy issues
(including copyright, schol-comm, information policy, funding, etc.), the
American Library Association's Policy Corps is soliciting applications for
it's 4th cohort of library advocates. Deadline to apply is Dec 1, 2021.

I've been a part of this for the last year and it's been a useful and
interesting professional development activity and way to learn about a wide
variety of policy issues. 

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Please excuse duplication but we hope you’ll share this notice broadly or to potential applicants.

UC San Diego Library continues to invite qualified candidates to apply to this opportunity

Program Director
Collection Development and Management

The University of California, San Diego Library seeks creative, collaborative, and service-oriented applicants for the position of Program Director (PD), Collection Development & Management (CDM). The CDM PD is positioned to support a range of activities that define the development and management of the Library’s collections. This includes engagement with new modes of acquiring and delivering scholarship, and the opportunity to collaborate with experts both 

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Hi all:

The co-chairs have decided to *cancel* the SCCKG meeting for tomorrow
(Wednesday, November 17).

We do not have a deep dive topic for discussion this month, so we'll
reconvene in December.

However, we still ask that you add your campus and crossover group updates
to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/November+17%2C+2021+Schol+Comm+CKG+Meeting+Agenda>,
and we'll send around those notes to everyone. 

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Hello copyright experts. I spoke with a faculty member who wants to protect ownership of her work before she shares it with a research team (innovation center). She needs to provide a guidance document for the team she's working with through a multi-institutional, government-funded project, but plans to publish on this work later on. Her concern is having others on the team take information from the guidance document and publish or share it themselves, which she has seen happen with this group. 

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Hi all:

Just a reminder that we've got our monthly SCCKG meeting coming up in one
week.

- Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 1-2pm PST
- Zoom link <https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/November+17%2C+2021+Schol+Comm+CKG+Meeting+Agenda>
.
- *We are looking for a deep dive topic for this month. Any ideas?*
- UCR is the note-taker. 

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Hello everyone, I wanted to let you know that we have a new member of the CDL team who is now supporting our transformative agreements - Mark Clemente, our new open access publisher agreements manager<https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2021/09/20/welcome-to-mark-lawrence-clemente-cdls-new-open-access-publisher-agreements-manager/>.

Mark will be our lead on fielding author inquiries about transformative agreements. You can direct such inquiries to him either via the general list [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, which Mark is monitoring, which is the preferred approach, or you can contact him at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. 

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Hi folks. A reminder that our monthly SCCKG meeting takes place next week:

* Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 1-2pm PDT
* Zoom link<https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>: https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718
* Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/rxzYHw> in advance
* This month's topics are a discussion of CASE Act implications for library employees, a recap of the B15 Open Access Conference, and OA Week highlights. Let us know if you have any other topics you'd like to discuss.
* UCD is tasked with taking notes this month 

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Hi folks. Protocols.io has arranged the following three webinars for the UC community; one intro and two advanced as follows:

* Introduction to protocols.io and the art of writing protocols for University of California<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.protocols.io/webinars/introduction-to-protocolsio-and-the-art-of-writing10__;!!LQC6Cpwp!9i3uH8VMA3lnEXMD9kqgBPQ3p9lhp6P0gr4Pnbn3DQKpqYQGUR3dDp-m0udeZSZZy0bEhg$> (Nov 3, at 1:00 PM PT)
* Tips and Tricks for University of California protocols.io Power Users<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.protocols.io/webinars/tips-and-tricks-for-university-of-california-protocolsio__;!!LQC6Cpwp!9i3uH8VMA3lnEXMD9kqgBPQ3p9lhp6P0gr4Pnbn3DQKpqYQGUR3dDp-m0udeZSZ1To2WnQ$> (Nov 10 at 12:00 PM PT)
* Tips and Tricks for University of California protocols.io Power Users<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.protocols.io/webinars/tips-and-tricks-for-university-of-california-protocolsio1__;!!LQC6Cpwp!9i3uH8VMA3lnEXMD9kqgBPQ3p9lhp6P0gr4Pnbn3DQKpqYQGUR3dDp-m0udeZSbcuViXmw$> (Dec 7 at 4:00 PM PT) 

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Hello all!

I've taken what I could find in the September CKG minutes and put together
a blog post about OA week events. Please review it, add what's missing, and
fix it up.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sHdFuFA-0v9GaeDXgFiyMTdbh147Uz8r7ePBHwPA83k/edit#

I'd love to get it posted next Monday or Tuesday, which means getting your
edits in by EOB this Friday, but let me know if that timing is a problem
for you. 

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Colleagues,

All members of CoUL signed on to the attached letter regarding a notice of
proposed rulemaking under the CASE Act that could directly impact
libraries. I believe UCLA will also be submitting a separate letter
individually.

Tim and I are happy to chat more if you have any questions about the
attached. Thanks to Katie, too, for reviewing. 

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Hello everyone, I wanted to share the news below regarding our newly appointed Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager, Mark Clemente, who will start 9/27. In his new role, Mark will be a member of TAIG and will work with the campus transformative agreement liaisons.

I also want to thank Michael Ladisch for taking up many key components of this role when I stepped out of it in July, and for his generous and outstanding contributions supporting our staff and authors in relation to our transformative agreements over the last few months. THANK YOU MICHAEL! 

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Hi all:

Just a reminder that we've got our monthly SCCKG meeting coming up in about
one week.

- Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 1-2pm PDT
- Zoom link <https://ucop.zoom.us/j/236485718>
- Please add your campus and crossover group updates to the wiki page
<https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/UCLCKG/September+15%2C+2021+Schol+Comm+CKG+Meeting+Agenda>.
Also, if you are planning any Open Access Week events (Oct 25-29), please
share with the group!
- This month's deep dive is the postponed discussion about MDPI and
predatory publishing.
- UCLA is tasked with taking notes this month. 

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All,

Just wanted to pass along our comment letter from yesterday regarding the
revised draft of the UC Research Data Policy. And I checked my e-mail and
can't find the first round of comments that I know Tim sent to you for the
original draft policy (our letter from April), so I'm also reattaching
that, too, just in case. 

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Hi all:

We've gotten two emails in the last few weeks from Berkeley authors
publishing in IOP open access journals. Both of the authors seemed to have
no idea that they were supposed to pay an APC to publish open access in the
journals.

They essentially said that the journal accepted their article, and then the
article was published. The authors then received an invoice to pay the APC
seemingly out of the blue. 

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Hi,

Has anyone else encountered this scenario?

UC Merced academic personnel contacted the library after they received an RFI from the United Auto Workers regarding post-doc bargaining. The RFI included the following:

Provide all UC policies relating to open access publishing fees and subsidies available to Postdocs to cover said fees, and a list of all Postdoctoral Scholars since 2016 who have received a subsidy to cover open access publishing fees, and the date and amount of the subsidy. 

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