It would also be much more open if it required all articles with a University of California coauthor to be open access by default. If the agreement only applie

It would also be much more open if it required all articles with a University of California coauthor to be open access by default. If the agreement only applies to articles with UC corresponding authors, it severely limits the scope of the agreement, especially since its usually the first author, not the corresponding author, who primary conducts the research and writes the paper itself. Edit: Still, this is good news and better than before.