The 10-campus University of California (UC) system has announced that it struck a four-year agreement with Elsevier, the largest academic publisher in the world, after a highly publicized split and more than two years of negotiations. The deal, which allows for open access publishing of UC research in nearly 2,300 Elsevier journals, has been dubbed “a landmark victory for the university and for open access publishing” by Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley’s executive vice chancellor and provost. “The outcome aligns with the university’s goals of making UC research freely available for all,” he says.