California Digital Library

eScholarship RepositoryInt’l Conference on Digital Institutional Repositories

9-10 December 2004, Hong Kong

Catherine H.CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives

Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California

Why does UC want to change scholarly communication? 32 million items held by UC; shared CD strategies

constrained; redundant print collections undermine development 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 receiving 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

System 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 publishing platform: pre-prints and reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals (bepress software)

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

High adoption rate: 180+ UC units/depts. on 10 campuses, labs and the Office of the President, 5,400+ papers

High usage rate: 854,832 full-text downloads to date; >21,950 per week as of Dec 3, 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 (and may help end the fight over control of content)

A 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