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.