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This article focuses on the publishing paradigm of the University of California (UC). As digital technologies evolved and campus budgets constricted, UC librarians, researchers and administrators began acknowledging three challenges that could not be ignored; the economics of publishing were changing rapidly, scholarly communication needed to innovate and sustaining comprehensive collections was becoming increasingly harder to do. UC representatives began conceptualizing a plan to harness the system's resources at a time when the budget was very bad and the possibilities of technology seamed endless. The mission of the California Digital Library is to provide a centralized framework to efficiently share materials held by UC, offer greater and easier access to digital content and join with researchers in developing new tools and innovations for scholarly communication. The eScholarship Repository, a project of the eScholarship initiative project, offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating UC research unit. The repository enables the rapid creation, management and dissemination of journals, peer-reviewed series, working papers and other forms of scholarship generated by UC researchers.

The article reports that the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is paying for authors' open access (OA) charges at the University of California (UC) Berkeley. The article also reports that the Harvard University Law School (HLS) faculty has voted to make their scholarly articles available online for free.

The article focuses on a report by a task force from the University of California (UC) entitled "Publishing Needs and Opportunities at the University of California." The report recommends that UC start a university-based publishing program to publish scholarly work in addition to the existing UC Press.

The article focuses on the California Digital Library's (CDL) redesign of its eScholarship Repository. Catherine Mitchell, CDL Publishing Group Director, mentioned that CDL wanted to reposition eScholarship as a publishing platform and provide more ways to use content. Digital librarian Roy Tennant commented on the Repository's technical infrastructure.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual convention of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) held in Los Angeles, California from January 6-9, 2011. The event was attended by 8,000 people, including 350 exhibitors from university press and over 3,000 panelists in 821 sessions. The crisis in scholarly publishing was also discussed at the conference. Professor Lennard Davis talked on the effect of the economic crisis on the pensions of baby boomers.

The article discusses the academic publishers, University of California Press (UC Press) and Stanford University Press (SUP), which are located in the Bay Areas of San Francisco, California. Topics include changes to UC Press' infrastructure such as moving its offices from Berkeley to Oakland and combining its book and journal publishing, UC Press' development of its digital-first publishing program, and SUP's tendency to try new programs such as its Stanford Briefs digital publishing program.

The article offers information on academic contributions of various researchers and officials from different Departments of the Independent Institute, Oakland, California. Robert Higgs has written a commentary on the government's economic stimulus for the newspaper "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review." Alvaro Vargas Llosa has been interviewed by the newspaper "El Nacional," on economic policies of Venezuela. Ivan Eland has commented on the U.S. foreign policy for Iraq in the newspaper "USA Today."

The article discusses the academic publishing-related events that took place in the U.S. as of October 2010. The author highlights the international Open Access Week to be held from October 18 to 24. The standoff between the University of California librarians and the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) concerning the pricing policy of NPG is also reported. The first hearing held by the U.S. Congress on the issue of public access to federally funded research under the Federal Research Public Access Act is also mentioned.

Offers news briefs related to the Internet, as of March 2001. Reports that the California Digital Library (CDL) will include novel scholarly publications in its online collections and services; Announcement made by the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) that number of titles available on its GPO Access service has surpassed 200,000.