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At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is central to our mission to amplify scholarship that has the potential to fundamentally change how people think, lead, and live. Who benefits from open access? Everyo...

Alenda Chang (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara), Adrian Ivakhiv (Environmental Studies, University of Vermont) and Janet Walker (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) are Editors-in-Chief of University of California Press’s new...

First occurring in the fall of 2009, Open Access Week is celebrated as “an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helpin...

Elementa has an Impact Factor of 3.518. We congratulate and thank all the editors, authors, reviewers, and journal founder, BioOne, who have stewarded the journal into the high-quality publication it is today. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is an open-access, non-profit, interdi...