Transcript Scholarly Publishing at University of California ———— An Update for User’s Council Catherine H.

Scholarly Publishing at
University of California
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An Update for User’s Council
Catherine H. Candee
Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
California Digital Library
Brief History of CDL Publishing
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Economics and technology intersected in the mid-1990s to
provide the perfect crisis/opportunity
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CDL opened 1999; eScholarship Program launched 2000
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eScholarship Repository launched 2003; today 200 UC
depts. contributing more than 16,000 papers, books,
articles, etc; 5.2 million full-text downloads
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eScholarship Editions: 2,000 XML Scholarly monographs
from University of California Press
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CDL-UC Press partnership extends to monographic series,
digital critical editions, interactive Web based publications
eScholarship Services
► Provide
low-cost alternative publishing services
for the UC community
► Support
widespread distribution of the
materials that result from research & teaching
► Foster
new models of scholarly publishing
through the development and application of
advanced technologies
Dark and Stormy Night
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Economics of scholarly publishing have become
increasingly troublesome for both nonprofit producers
and consumers; libraries continue to buy shrinking
percentage of output
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New technologies offer possibilities for innovative and
more cost-effective publishing
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Pressures and opportunities create new challenges for
UC services in support of research & teaching
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Experiments with new forms of publication have
extended as far as existing organizational structures
(UC Press and CDL) and budgets will allow
Guiding Principles
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To remain competitive the university must provide a
research infrastructure for its faculty that will ensure
productivity and stimulate innovation in all aspects
of the research, teaching and learning cycle
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Publishing must be conceived more broadly than the
production of an archival record; it is an integral part
of the research enterprise
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Publishing must embrace a suite of production and
dissemination activities, some of which will be
revenue generating
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Publishing must enable faculty to create and
distribute works via the most appropriate means
Early research confirming
what we already knew
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An enormous amount of publishing activity, both system-wide
and campus-based
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Much of it is informal, e.g. working papers, much of it is digital,
and much of it hard to find
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Surprising amount of formal publishing activity on campuses, in
ORUs and UCOP departments
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Faculty make a distinction between in-process scholarly
communication and formal, archival publication (ref to Harley,
King)
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There is still considerable resistance to the use of alternative
formats for “archival publication” because of tenure concerns
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Growing percentage of UC faculty are desperate for university
support for creating, validating, publishing, recognizing their new
scholarly communication activities
UC Strategy
► Align
UC publishing services with the academic
enterprise of the University of California
► Broaden
the role of the university press beyond
gatekeeper for a select few; reclaim and extend
the original role of the university press
► Coordinate
planning across the UC system, find
intersections in IT planning, digital stewardship,
research data support, publishing and preservation
► Develop
publishing services to be interoperable
with services for research and supplementary data
UC Publishing Services
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Traditional Scholarly Publishing Services
 Scholarly monographs
 Peer-reviewed journals
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Dissemination & Repository Services
 Working papers, technical reports, etc.
 Electronic Theses & Dissertations
 Postprint Repository
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New Publishing Models
 Distributed Editorial Boards
 Digital Critical Editions
 Interactive map-based publications in soc sciences & humanities
 Science reference/collaboration with museums
Thank you!
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