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Letter to Faculty - Boycott of Nature Publishing Group
Possible UC Systemwide Boycott of the Nature Publishing Group.
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Free Textbooks
Use Springer e-books, as well as other online information resources, to provide your students with textbooks they can use at no cost to themselves.
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Faculty & Staff Library Orientations Spring 2010
The Library is has two general orientation sessions scheduled for faculty and staff during the week of January 11-15.
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Faculty Session: Journal and Article Level Metrics
Information on journal and article metrics including a discussion of their usefulness and shortcomings. 
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CDL Letter to Vendors - Economic Challenges Face UC Libraries
California Digital Libraries and the UC Collection Development Committee, with endorsement from University Librarians, have jointly drafted an Open Letter to Licensed Content Vendors to advise content vendors with whom we conduct business of the serious economic challenges facing the University of California Libraries.

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UC Campuses to Evaluate SCOPUS
The entire University of California community has access through February 28, 2010 to SCOPUS, a large interdisciplnary abstract and citation database of research literature and selected websites developed by the scholarly publisher Elsevier.

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UC Libraries and Springer Pilot Agreement for Open Access Journal Publishing
This ground-breaking agreement enables UC-authored articles accepted for publication in most of the 2000+ Springer journals to be published through Springer Open Choice, allowing full and immediate access to all readers. These articles will also be fully accessible through UC’s eScholarship publishing platform. UC authors pay no additional publication fees to support this open access model.

Read the FAQ on the UC Office of Scholarly Communication web site.