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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Faculty of the University of California is committed to disseminating its research and </font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">scholarship as widely as possible. In particular, as part of a public university system, the Faculty is </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">dedicated to making its scholarship available to the people of California and the world. </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Furthermore, the Faculty recognizes the benefitsthat accrue to themselves as individual scholars and </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">thorough review, consideration and critique, and a general increase in scientific, scholarly and </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">critical knowledge. Faculty further recognize that by this policy, and with the assistance of the </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University, they can more easily and collectively reserve rights that might otherwise be signed away, </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers. In keeping with these considerations, and for the </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">primary purpose of making our scholarly articles widely and freely accessible, the Faculty adopts the </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">following policy:</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>
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