UC Berkeley Library Scholarly Communication & Information Policy

Are you a graduate student thinking about turning your dissertation into a scholarly book? Join us Nov 17 for an expert panel discussion to demystify the process and answer your burning questions! More info and RSVP at: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/10/27/r... @authorsalliance.bsky.social

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Coming up in two weeks! Join us to unpack scholarly metrics and set a plan for maximizing your research and publishing impact. Our fall workshops for new academic authors hosted together with partners @authorsalliance.bsky.social. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/09/29/r...

Coming up on Thursday at 11am Pacific on Zoom! There’s still time to register. RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Open Access Community Investment Program ( #OACIP ) Reaches #Funding Goal for Nine Diamond Open Access #Journals (via @wearelyrasis.bsky.social) lyrasis.org/oacip-commun... #oa #openaccess #scholcomm

REMINDER: We’re contributing to this preconference workshop at the upcoming Charleston Conference. Join ARL and CARL on November 3 for a deep dive into “The Right to Research in the Age of AI”. www.arl.org/blog/join-ar... @carl-abrc.bsky.social @arl.org

RSVP now for the Sept 17 workshop on navigating copyright and other legal considerations in your dissertation or thesis. We’re partnering with @authorsalliance.bsky.social on several fall semester workshops for new academic authors. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/09/02/r...

We’re excited to collaborate with @authorsalliance.bsky.social on our fall 2026 workshop series for new academic authors. RSVP for the sessions at: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/08/18/f... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

“We are enabling research in foundational ways in an environment and landscape where the right to do things with information is under threat.” -@rachaelgs.bsky.social www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/a...

If you use 10 seconds or less of a song, it’s fair use. You can copy 10% of a book for a class, and that’s fair use. Is this actually true? This is a guest post by Katherine Klosek of ARL and Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania.

We’ll be contributing to this timely and important workshop with ARL and CARL. Consider signing up to join us in Charleston. www.arl.org/blog/join-ar... @arl.org @carl-abrc.bsky.social

Congratulations to UCB Prof. David Zilberman for publishing the “Handbook of Circular Bioeconomy”. The book is open access, made possible through the support of the UC Berkeley Library. Free PDF and EPUB download at: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Attention UC Berkeley authors: Are you an early career researcher in the arts or humanities looking to publish your work open access? UC Libraries is extending its existing pilot fund to help cover the costs. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/04/22/u...

Congratulations to UCB Prof. Sabrina Agarwal for publishing “Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice”. The book is open access, made possible through the support of the UC Berkeley Library. Free PDF and EPUB download at: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

Congrats to UC Berkeley Prof. Robert Strand for publishing “Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainable Capitalism”. Published open access with support from the library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

The fifth annual LyrOpen Fair will be held virtually from March 24 to April 2, 2026, with five webinars exploring the open research and scholarship ecosystem. lyrasis.org/lyropen-fair/ @wearelyrasis.bsky.social

Happy Fair Use Friday during #fairuseweek! We’ve celebrated how fair use is essential to innovation & creativity, giving America a competitive edge. Check out our new one-pager explaining what fair use is, how we use it daily, and its impact on U.S. innovation! recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 23–27, 2026, the 13th annual celebration of balance in copyright law! Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici... #FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE: Join @arl.org & Re:Create on 2/25 for a Fair Use Week congressional briefing looking at perspectives on AI and fair use from legal and policy experts. More information ➡️ www.arl.org/event/fair-u...

Reminder for UCB faculty, students, researchers: We’re giving a demo and workshop on how to build and publish a digital book via Pressbooks on Feb 19. RSVP for the Zoom link: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/02/10/r...

Congrats to Prof. Donald J. Mastronarde on publishing the third open access installment of scholia on Euripides’ Orestes (1101–1693) now available on Pressbooks: berkeley.pressbooks.pub/scholiapart3/ @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

Here’s a quick update on how UC Berkeley Library—and the broader UC system—is supporting authors publishing open access books. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/28/u...

Advancing Open Monograph Opportunities at UC: New Pathways for the Future osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2026/01/adva...

Workshop coming up Feb 19, 11a-12p, Zoom: Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks. RSVP for the demo and learn the basics of creating and sharing digital books. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/13/f...

Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2026/01/open...

Coming up in 1 week. Are you a UC Berkeley faculty or researcher publishing results arising from federal grant funding? Join us January 14, 1-2pm on Zoom for a dive into agency public access policies affecting research publications and data. RSVP now! update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/07/r...

Are you a UC Berkeley faculty or researcher publishing results arising through federal grant funding? Join us January 14, 1-2pm on Zoom for a dive into agency public access policies affecting research publications and data. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/12/15/u... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

Here’s a videorecording of last month’s panel “From Dissertation to Book: Navigating the Pubication Process.” Many thanks to our great speakers who helped prospective authors understand how to publish an academic book. youtu.be/g4VduJLstBY?...

Today, we are pleased to release The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals. This release builds on the recap of our final planning workshop and anticipates release of our final deliverable later this month.

This webinar on how to negotiate contracts to set better terms around AI and data was one of the best we've done. It's relevant to a number of different communities and creators, not just libraries! @libraryfutures.bsky.social archive.org/details/resi...

Congrats to @ninabegus.bsky.social on publishing "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI." It’s open access on @uofmpress.bsky.social; OA publication made possible in part from UCB Library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Coming up next week! Join us as we talk to a faculty author, academic press editor, and a legal expert to unpack how to publish a scholarly book. Nov 18, 11 am Pacific time, Zoom. RSVP: berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We’re presenting at the “Research, AI and Rights” webinar on Nov 14. Join for a discussion of the impacts of the ever-changing AI legal landscape on the work of researchers and the institutions that support them. RSVP at www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

🎉 Today the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program announces the new 2025-2026 OACIP Journals! Libraries, consortia, academic departments, research centers, museums and funding agencies can support any of the #DiamondOA journals seeking funding. Learn more at: https://ow.ly/cu5I50XgjY7

Calling all UC Berkeley students looking to publish an academic book: sign up for the upcoming panel discussion to learn the ins and outs of the process. Nov 18, 11 am, Zoom. RSVP: berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

We’re happy to be joining the SJSU Open Access Virtual Conference to discuss how librarians and researchers are navigating the updated NIH Public Access Policy: scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer... October 21, 2025. Free to register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next week, join our workshop to understand scholarly metrics and learn how to amplify your academic work. Oct 14, 11a-12p, Zoom. RSVP: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/25/r...

This fall semester, we and Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) are co-hosting a Discussion Series on AI and its implications professionals working in libraries, archives and museums and for authors, artists, scholars, researchers who work with them. More info and registration here:

Check out the article @rachaelgs.bsky.social wrote with @authorsalliance.bsky.social. It explores how academic researchers & libraries are navigating private contracts that override key copyright exceptions meant to protect research, teaching, and innovation. copyrightsociety.org/journal-entr...

UCB students & faculty: Join our workshop to learn why research impact matters, discover key metrics to measure it, and explore practical tools to amplify your scholarly work. Oct 14, 11a-12p, Zoom. RSVP: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/25/r... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Have questions about copyright in writing your dissertation or thesis? Join our online workshop next week where we’ll help you navigate copyright and info policy issues. RSVP for the Zoom: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/09/r...

Attention @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social social science and humanities grad students: Are you interested in eventually writing a scholarly book? Come to our Zoom panel to learn the ins and outs of the process. Great lineup of speakers. Nov 18, 11 am. RSVP: update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/09/n...

Are you a PhD/Masters student working on your dissertation or thesis? Join this workshop on Sept 16 in which we’ll give you practical guidance for navigating copyright questions and other legal considerations for your writing and publication. RSVP for the Zoom: berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Using AI and Text Mining with Library Resources: What Every UC Berkeley Researcher Needs to Know update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/02/b... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

We’re pleased to share a draft of our paper, “Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It”. We are especially grateful to @rachaelgs.bsky.social for co-authoring this paper with us.

Check out the Fall 2025 copyright and publishing workshops hosted by our office. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/08/19/f... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Supporting open access book publishing at UC Berkeley: Fall 2025 Update update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/08/19/s... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social