Transcript Stewarship of Digital Scholarly Assets at the University

California Digital Library
Stewardship of Scholarly
and Cultural Assets at the
University of California
Catherine H.Candee
Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
Office of Scholarly Communication
University of California
Scholarly Communication –
a system in crisis
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The crisis reduces the university community’s
access to scholarly materials and limits the
dissemination of scholarship
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A failure to respond will jeopardize the preeminence of our research institutions, their
contributions to scholarly inquiry, their
effectiveness in teaching and learning, and
their broader service to the public.
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Gift culture of the academy is at stake
Why tackle scholarly communication
at UC? A question of scale
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32 million items held by UC; shared CD
strategies constrained; redundant print
collections undermine development of
collections needed for research & teaching
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UC serials expenditures > $20 million, even
with economies of scale
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50% of budget for online materials are for
journals receiving only 25% of the use.
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UC faculty > 13% of senior editors at top
2,000 journals and a significant % of authors
Who’s Digital Assets are they?
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Born-digital scholarship is proliferating, often
without a print analog or adequate processes
for digitally preserving it
Research and scholarly products must be
managed in trusted repositories, in the
academic/non-commercial sector.
The university has a stake in ensuring the
long term management of the products of
research & teaching– its primary activities
A brief portrait of CDL
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Collections include more than 230,000 online books,
8,000 scholarly journals, 4,500 statistical files, as well
as 250 A & I databases, and over 1,000,000 digital
surrogates for works in art & architecture
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Tools enable the creation, capture, organization,
customization, annotation, presentation, and longterm management of persistent, interoperable, and
high-quality digital information
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Services encourage the effective adaptation and use
of CDL tools in three application areas – scholarly
and educational publishing; content capture,
aggregation and site building; digital preservation
Online Archive of California (OAC)
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Resource of finding aids
and digital content
Free to students,
teachers and researchers
Dates from 1995: birth of
Encoded Archival
Description (EAD)
standard
Today: 94 repositories;
8,000 finding aids;
150,000 images; 75,000
pages of texts
Services
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CDL Services encourage the effective
adaptation and use of CDL tools in three
application areas:
 Content capture, aggregation & site building
 Digital Preservation
 Scholarly and Educational Publishing
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Scholarly publishing, the most developed of
these services, will be the focus of my talk.
First, some examples of other services.
Preservation
UC’s Digital Preservation
Program – Key Components
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Ensure long-term access to digital information
Digital Preservation Repository uses CDL’s
common framework to build a shared service
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Infrastructure can be exploited by the
campuses and the CDL
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Digital Preservation Repository manages a
diverse array of content
Scholarly Publishing
…and University of California efforts to
contribute to a sustainable scholarly
publishing system
Unsustainable economics of
scholarly journal publishing
Source: Bear Stearns European Equity Research report on Reed Elsevier. September 29, 2003
Monographs and the disciplines
that need them are also affected
Source: Bear Stearns European Equity Research report on Reed Elsevier. September 29, 2003
eScholarship Program
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Publishing and investigative tool in UC’s
search for sustainable, alternative models
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eScholarship Repository: Library/faculty
partnership; enables greater faculty control
over publishing & dissemination
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eScholarship Editions: CDL/University
Press partnership to extend publishing
capabilities and experiment w/new roles
eScholarship Repository
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Full spectrum publishing platform: pre-prints and
reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and
peer-reviewed journals
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Existing university structure: research units and
departments are gatekeepers; editorial and
administrative functions distributed
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High adoption rate: 200+ UC academic units and
departments on 10 campuses, labs and the Office of
the President; 9,226 papers
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High usage rate: 1,905,300 full-text downloads to
date; 40,397 per week as of October 9, 2005
PostPrints
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Response to faculty desire for greater control
over management and use of creative output
Takes advantage of liberalized “reprint” (i.e.,
postprint) policies by publishers
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Allows universities to capture and manage
pools of content; allows development of new
third-party value-added services (and may
help end the fight over control of content)
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Discovery, resolver, linking services needed
eScholarship Editions: partnering
with Univ Press & Schol Societies
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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; CDL’s
structured text infrastructure, streamline
inputs and enhance outputs
Many fronts to UC effort to
safeguard flow of scholarly output
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System wide Library and Scholarly Information
Advisory Committee (SLASIAC): leads universitywide effort to improve scholarly communication
system to meet research & teaching mission
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System wide Faculty Senate Advisory Committee
on Scholarly Communication (SASC): leads
senate actions to address issues of copyright
management and tenure rewards
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Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC): seeks
to develop financially sustainable models and
improve all areas of scholarly communication
Thank You
for your attention
Questions or Comments?
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