University of California adopts single repository for all research papers

Chronicle of Higher Education : Over the next several months, the University of California will be implementing a new policy that calls for all peer-reviewed research papers produced across its 10 university campuses to be deposited in a single university repository. The 8000 faculty members of UC write some 40 000 publications per year. The move ties into a request from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that researchers make their papers more publicly available and helps centralize UC’s burgeoning number of individual repositories. The move is being hailed by proponents of the Open Access movement, which calls for all research to be freely available. To protect the peer-review process, nearly all the papers submitted to the repository will be under embargo, unless the author pays journal publishers an article processing fee.