MDPI´s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) with the University of California, San Diego

UC San Diego Library participates in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) and recently signed on for the advanced program.
What does this mean for our authors?
The advanced program grants a 25% discount on the APC. With the 25% discount affiliated authors will save around 200 USD per published paper, on average.
Over 30 UC San Diego authors have taken advantage of this publishing discount in 2018 to date.

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Publishing Opportunity in Linguistics: L2 Journal from UC Berkeley

So excited for this new series from the UC Office of Scholarly Communication series, Open MIc. Open Mic is a new, informal interview series with editors of open access journals.

L2 Journal editors on the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics, the challenges of transhumanism, and the power of open access.

In this Open Mic interview with UC Berkeley’s L2 Journal of applied linguistics, we spoke with founder, General Editor, and Professor of German Claire Kramsch; Managing Editor and French Department PhD student Emily Linares; and Mark Kaiser, Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, which sponsors the journal, and creator of the BLC Library of Foreign Language Film Clips. (The original sponsor of L2 Journal was the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching.)

L2 Journal is an open access, fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal that aims to promote the research and the practice of language learning and teaching. The journal is published on the eScholarship platform, available free of charge (for readers and authors) on the internet. and supported by the Berkeley Language Center.