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California Digital Library
eScholarship Publishing ServicesCDL Users Council Meeting, May 9, 2008
Catherine MitchellActing Director, Publishing Group
California Digital LibraryUniversity of California
Catherine H.CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California
eScholarship Publishing Group Goals
Provide low cost, alternative publication services for the UC community
Support wide-spread distribution of the materials that result from research and teaching at UC
Foster new models of scholarly publishing through the development and application of advanced technologies
What we do…
eScholarship Repository
Full spectrum publishing platform: pre-prints and reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals
Organized by campus, ORU, department High usage rate:
>21,000 documents; >6 Million full-text downloads Direct digital publishing services for faculty, research
units, labs
What we do…
What we do with UC Press…
CDL – UCP Collaborative publishing
eScholarship Editions ~2000 backlist monographs; XML-encoded, XTF
indexed Monographic series
Distributed editorial boards; published in the eScholarship Repository
Mark Twain Project Online Digital critical edition of Mark Twain’s works,
extends UCP’s long history of book publication; new technical infrastructure; XML-encoded, XTF-indexed: www.marktwainproject.org
Taking Stock
The Scholarly Communications Crisis
“Our institutional efforts to develop services that would respond to the publishing crisis have taught us an important lesson: attempts to improve scholarly communication by exciting individual faculty ire or inspiration have surfaced issues, stirred passions and illustrated boundless possibilities for the niche and informal communications that are the hallmark of 21st-century scholarlship – but they have not and likely will not fundamentally change the way scholarly publishing works. UC faculty would like to see the university play a more active role in blunting the effect of the commercialization of academic publishing, but they will not and cannot risk their own academic lives to make it happen.”
- Catherine Candee and Lynne Withey, SLASIAC Report
Findings: faculty survey; campus visits
Tenure/promotion criteria are a major impediment to use of non-standard (digital) formats for “archival publication”
At the same time, a growing # of UC faculty are eager for university support for creating, validating, publishing, recognizing their new scholarly activities
Those faculty who use eScholarship services, either as authors or as end-user researchers are quite please with what they get
And yet, only a small percentage of faculty have ever heard of the eScholarship Repository – the very word “repository” may be a barrier to use
Phase 2
eScholarship – phase 2 goals
Focus publishing services on the articulated needs of the scholarly enterprise writ large and small
Respond to disciplinary difference and to disciplinary/interdisciplinary formation
Validate and develop scalable services for non-traditional scholarly publishing efforts
Listen, communicate, listen… (outreach and marketing campaign)
eScholarship Publishing Services
Launch a low-budget journal Manage conference proposals and publishing
proceedings Support the creation of disciplinary collections Enable new and emerging kinds of scholarly
publication that defy typical generic categorization and require technical infrastructure and support
Help faculty manage the annual biobib requirement, maintain a scholarly homepage
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