Managing Your Intellectual Property

The University of California and UCLA both submitted comments supporting the NIH Public Access Policy, detailing the campuses’ efforts, and suggesting improvements to the process.

The UCLA letter, signed by Vice Chancellor for Research Roberto Peccei, Vice Provost of Intellectual Property and Industrial Relations & Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Kathryn Atchison, and University Librarian Gary E. Strong, stated their collaborative efforts “targeted at faculty, librarians, and staff aimed to inform, educate, and assist researchers and to support the broadest possible dissemination of their work”. In addition, the letter explains, “the Library has taken the lead in providing individual assistance to authors who have questions about the submission process.”

In addition, Provost and Executive Vice President Wyatt Hume submitted a letter on behalf of the University of California detailing UC-wide efforts.

If you have any general questions about the policy or how you can ensure you are compliant, email the Library for assistance at nih@library.ucla.edu.

On behalf of UCLA and all UC campuses, the California Digital Library (CDL) officially gave support to SCOAP3, a new approach to open-access publishing in high energy physics. An international consortium, SCOAP3 funds the peer-review process through members’ contributions, which they are able to redirect from subscriptions to journals in high energy physics. CDL joins a growing number of supporting institutions in Europe.

UC announced January 14 that the eScholarship Repository has surpassed the five million mark in full-text downloads of its open-access scholarly content since its 2002 creation.  The repository provides a full-spectrum publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals; contributions from UC academic departments and units now exceed twenty thousand papers and works.

UC Provost Rory Hume sent a letter to US Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer expressing UC’s support for language in a Senate bill that would strengthen the public access policy of the National Institutes of Health.