California Digital Library

eScholarship: a UC Publishing Initiative

Catherine H.CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives

Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California

Why UC? Why eScholarship? 32 million items held by UC; Shared CD strategies

constrained; redundant print collections undermine devel of collections needed for research & teaching

UC serials expenditures > $20 million, even with economies of scale

50% of UC’s online materials budget for journals receive only 25% of the use.

UC faculty > 13% of senior editors at top 2,000 journals and a significant % of authors

UC efforts to safeguard the flow of scholarly output System wide Library and Scholarly Information

Advisory Committee (SLASIAC): leads university-wide effort to improve scholarly communication system to meet research & teaching mission

UC-wide Faculty Senate Advisory Committee on Scholarly Communication (SASC): leads senate actions to address issues of copyright management and tenure rewards

Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC): seeks to develop financially sustainable models and improve all areas of scholarly communication

eScholarship Program

Publishing and investigative tool in UC’s search for sustainable, alternative models

eScholarship Repository: Library/faculty partnership; enables greater faculty control over publishing & dissemination

eScholarship Editions: CDL/University Press partnership to extend publishing capabilities and experiment w/new roles

eScholarship Repository Full spectrum of publishing activity: pre-prints

and reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals

Existing university structure: research units and departments are gatekeepers; editorial and administrative functions distributed

High adoption rate: 165+ UC units/depts. on 10 campuses, labs and the Office of the President, >5,250 papers

High usage rate: 782,302 full-text downloads to date; >18,000 per week as of Nov 5, 2004

Benefits of eScholarship Repository Dissemination quick and efficient;

administrative time savings for unit/dept Allows federation and institute branding CDL commitment to persistent access Multiple discovery methods:

Centrally for all UC at repositories.cdlib.org Google and other web-crawled search services Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting services

PostPrints; PostRef? Response to faculty desire for greater control

over management and use of creative output

Takes advantage of liberalized “reprint” (postprint) policies by publishers

Allows universities to capture and manage pools of content; allows development of new third-party value-added services

A possible future “PostRef” service?

Publishing Partners: Faculty, Presses, & Societies Productive, dynamic CDL-UCP partnership: nearly

2,000 XML schol monographs + new monographic series + UCIAS = new models for publication of book length scholarly works

Editorial: Enhance university press’ capacity (edit and tech) for publishing; use existing mechanisms to share editorial load; UCP “reviews the reviewers”

Technical: Redesigned workflow; extend structured text infrastructure, streamline inputs and enhance outputs, e.g., MTDP