Advance Open Scholarship and Knowledge Creation

We prioritize open and robust access to information and enact policies that advance open knowledge creation.

• Support continued mandates that funded research results be published openly for public and researcher discovery, use, and re-use.
• Partner for transformative scholarly communication initiatives with publishing vendors and other organizations that support new models of scholarly output and dissemination.
• Advocate for and educate our UCLA community about the UC Open Access Policies and the need for scholarly communication transformation.
• Digitize and provide access to unique cultural heritage materials that support broad access.
• Support the research data lifecycle, especially data preservation and re-use.
• Advocate for and integrate research and data skills into courses and curricula.
• Center open access principles in all activities to further democratize and enhance access to knowledge.
• Leverage user experience when we develop, revise and maintain our systems that enable content discovery, access and management in all modes of research and instruction.
• Increase open digital and data resources to support teaching, learning, research and creative output.
• Build, support and curate content and data representative of our community and the history of Los Angeles and its role as a global city.

See more about the UCLA Library Strategic Directions.