Transcript Stewarship of Digital Scholarly Assets at the University

California Digital Library
eScholarship Publishing
Services
CDL Users Council Meeting, May 9, 2008
Catherine Mitchell
Acting Director, Publishing Group
California Digital Library
University 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
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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
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eScholarship Editions
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Monographic series
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~2000 backlist monographs; XML-encoded, XTF
indexed
Distributed editorial boards; published in the
eScholarship Repository
Mark Twain Project Online
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Digital critical edition of Mark Twain’s works,
extends UCP’s long history of book publication;
new technical infrastructure; XML-encoded, XTFindexed: 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 21stcentury 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
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Tenure/promotion criteria are a major impediment to
use of non-standard (digital) formats for “archival
publication”
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At the same time, a growing # of UC faculty are eager
for university support for creating, validating,
publishing, recognizing their new scholarly activities
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Those faculty who use eScholarship services, either
as authors or as end-user researchers are quite
please with what they get
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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
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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 nontraditional scholarly publishing efforts
Listen, communicate, listen… (outreach and
marketing campaign)
eScholarship Publishing Services
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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
End-user Services
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