In March 2021, The University of California (UC) announced a “breakthrough” open access (OA) agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher (2021). Under the agreement, all articles with a lead author based at UC will be OA upon publication, and researchers at UC will have access to read articles in Elsevier journals.

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Original publication:Winter, Caroline. "Open Access Agreements." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 25 Jun. 2021, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/open-access-agreements/.

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