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Scholarly Publishing at University of California ———— 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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Scholarly Publishing at University of California————An Update for User’s Council Catherine H. CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic InitiativesCalifornia Digital Library
Brief History of CDL Publishing • Economics and technology intersected in the mid-1990s to provide the perfect crisis/opportunity • CDL opened 1999; eScholarship Program launched 2000 • eScholarship Repository launched 2003; today 200 UC depts. contributing more than 16,000 papers, books, articles, etc; 5.2 million full-text downloads • eScholarship Editions: 2,000 XML Scholarly monographs from University of California Press • 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 • Economics of scholarly publishing have become increasingly troublesome for both nonprofit producers and consumers; libraries continue to buy shrinking percentage of output • New technologies offer possibilities for innovative and more cost-effective publishing • Pressures and opportunities create new challenges for UC services in support of research & teaching • Experiments with new forms of publication have extended as far as existing organizational structures (UC Press and CDL) and budgets will allow
Guiding Principles • 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 • Publishing must be conceived more broadly than the production of an archival record; it is an integral part of the research enterprise • Publishing must embrace a suite of production and dissemination activities, some of which will be revenue generating • Publishing must enable faculty to create and distribute works via the most appropriate means
Early research confirming what we already knew • An enormous amount of publishing activity, both system-wide and campus-based • Much of it is informal, e.g. working papers, much of it is digital, and much of it hard to find • Surprising amount of formal publishing activity on campuses, in ORUs and UCOP departments • Faculty make a distinction between in-process scholarly communication and formal, archival publication (ref to Harley, King) • There is still considerable resistance to the use of alternative formats for “archival publication” because of tenure concerns • 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 • Traditional Scholarly Publishing Services • Scholarly monographs • Peer-reviewed journals • Dissemination & Repository Services • Working papers, technical reports, etc. • Electronic Theses & Dissertations • Postprint Repository • New Publishing Models • Distributed Editorial Boards • Digital Critical Editions • Interactive map-based publications in soc sciences & humanities • Science reference/collaboration with museums
Thank you! Catherine.Candee@ucop.edu