University Librarian & Chief Digital Scholarship Officer; Professor of Information and Professor of Economics; UC Berkeley

Joined April 2009
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The Trump administration's $1B dollar demand against UCLA is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate @UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend America’s greatest public university system and support this life-saving work. ucal.us/standupforuc
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NEWS | A generous gift from Nadine Tang M.S.W. ’75 will help transform Moffitt Library’s lower three floors. ✨ The gift is a tribute to Tang’s friendship with Chancellor Carol T. Christ, whose name will grace the library. ⏩ ucberk.li/honoring-christ
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The @UCBerkeleyLib has now made over 5 million photos taken by San Francisco Examiner staff photographers available under the CC BY 4.0 license. Check out our post for the details about how we're improving reuse of the Library's vast collections. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2024…
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NEWS | @UCBerkeley has announced its next university librarian. 🏛️✨ Suzanne L. Wones will join us from @HarvardLibrary. We look forward to Suzanne leading the Library as we help people find and evaluate knowledge to build a better future! 🌎 ⏩ ucberk.li/university-librari…
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Warmest wishes to the friends and supporters of the Library across the globe ✨🫶🐻🏛️🌎 🌟 Thank you for helping us build a brighter world for future generations 🌟 @UCBerkeley @Cal @jmmason @CalAlumniSF @californiamag
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White House changes open access requirement for federally-funded research: immediate (zero day embargo) access will be required henceforth. Huge victory for open access: will dramatically accelerate efforts to convert all scholarly publishing to OA ow.ly/eLqG50KsvQA

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NEWS | The University of California is announcing two new open access agreements, with @IEEEorg and @Nature. The university system now has open access deals with the top five publishers of UC research. 🙌🔓🌎 ⏩ ucberk.li/IEEE-nature
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Read this great @Auths_Alliance blog post about its amicus brief defending controlled digital lending against a publisher lawsuit. Authors want to be read!
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Authors Alliance is thrilled to announce that we have submitted an amicus brief in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, a case challenging the legality of Controlled Digital Lending. Learn more and read our full brief in today's blog post! authorsalliance.org/?p=10204
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We want to send a huge shout out to @UCBerkeleyLib, especially the amazing Lynne Grigsby (Head, Library IT), for hosting and supporting the latest version Digital Scriptorium since 2011 and helping to make the transition to DS 2.0 as smooth as possible!
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We now have open access publishing agreements with all five of the largest publishers of UC-authored research (including the prestige journals of Cell and Lancet imprints)!
🚨 OPEN ACCESS NEWS! 🔓🌎🧠🙌 @UofCalifornia has announced a deal with SAGE, one of the leading publishers of UC research in the social sciences and humanities. But what does it mean for you? ⏩ ucberk.li/sage
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NEWS | The @UCBerkeley Library is thrilled to announce Kate Donovan as the new director of @bancroftlibrary and associate university librarian for special collections. Kate joins us from @Harvard’s @HoughtonLib. Welcome, Kate! ⏩ ucberk.li/bancroft-director
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NEWS | @UofCalifornia announces open access pilot with academic publishing powerhouse Wiley. Here’s what that means for you. ⏩ ucberk.li/wiley-pilot
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Five floors. One vision. Limitless possibilities. ✨ Want to see how the #UCBerkeleyLibrary is transforming the undergraduate experience? Here’s an inside look at the Center for Connected Learning — coming to Moffitt Library. ⏩ ucberk.li/big-give-2022 #CalBigGive @CalBigGive
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