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California Digital Library. eScholarship Supporting Scholar-led Innovations in Scholarly Communication ICOLC April 19, 2002. CDL Brief History. Opened 1998 as co-library of University of California System

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  1. California Digital Library eScholarship Supporting Scholar-led Innovations in Scholarly Communication ICOLC April 19, 2002

  2. CDL Brief History • Opened 1998 as co-library of University of California System • Response to crisis in scholarly communication and the opportunity presented by digital technologies and the Web • Charged to create a comprehensive system for the management of digital scholarly information; support for research and teaching mission of the university

  3. CDL Licensing - eScholarship • Current library model still not sustainable in spite of leveraging • Licensing seen as short-term solution • Need new models of scholarly communication

  4. eScholarship: Unique Approach • Monitor emerging technologies and experimental applications • Use of repositories in physics, economics, etc. • XML/structured text, etc. • Monitor needs of scholars and researchers • Readiness to experiment, desire to enhance communication, to lower barriers to access • Concern with Peer Review and Permanence of the scholarly record ->Experiment w/components of scholarly communication

  5. eScholarship: Use of technologies • Traditional:familiar things in better way • Digitally reformatted Books • Digital Journals • New digital monographs • Experimental:newer things... • Discipline-based Digital Repositories for self-submission and self-archiving • Standards-based metadata and data sets to ensure interoperability

  6. eScholarship: Discipline-based experiments • Repository of Working Papers in Social Sciences and Humanities • CIAS: Digital pub of monographs from repository articles; new business model • DOJ and eNvironment: new, digital only; enhancements to journal articles, supplementary material • OSA/eScholarship/Univ of Cal Press multi-part digital and print reference work

  7. eScholarship Collaborations & Partnerships • University of California Press: new roles & responsibilities; UC interest in avoiding redundancy • SPARC: grant supports experiment to use adv tech to communicate in new ways • bepress: toolkit for peer review journals; co-developing tools for digital repository

  8. bepress • .com started by UC faculty, located in Berkeley • Flagship product: EdiKit — a sophisticated and thoroughly-developed; manages peer-review

  9. CDL & bepress • CDL 2 relationships with bepress: • A software license for their EdiKit software for e-journal, e-book, and working paper repository publication and management • A co-development agreement that enables CDL to specify future enhancements • CDL is now positioned to take a commercial-grade product and tailor it to library needs (e.g., interoperability with other repositories)

  10. What EdiKit Is • Web-based peer review journal software • Features include: • Easy article submission process • Assignment and tracking of reviewers • Automatic email notifications • Pre-publication review process • Publication of single articles or entire issue

  11. Case Study: Working Paper Repositories • Working papers have classically been “grey literature” — scholarly work difficult to discover, acquire, and provide organized access to • Software such as that provided by bepress is now making it much easier for faculty to deposit their work in a central, managed repository • By using the Open Archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting, centralized search services can create subject portals to institution-based repositories that comply with that protocol

  12. What EdiKit is Becoming • Open Archives initiative (OAI)-compliant working paper repository software • Book publishing software • “Data Rescue” software • Ability to enter descriptive information and a URL, and have the described document retrieved and deposited

  13. Open Archives Initiative • Born in e-print community—Los Alamos, CogNet, NCSTRL but adopted by wider DL community • Sponsored by CNI, DLF • Standardizes and makes easy the collection of records from different repositories to create a union, or federated service • Data providers “expose metadata” • Service providers “harvest metadata” & build services (several prototypes funded by Mellon – more info at www.openarchives.org)

  14. The Problem: Faculty Perspective University Organized ResearchUnit web site Submitting papers: There is often no easy and effective method for faculty to put their papers on a web site ?

  15. The Problem: User Perspective University Organized ResearchUnit web site University Organized ResearchUnit web site University Organized ResearchUnit web site Browsing: the user must browse many individual sites to discover all university working papers

  16. Searching: To search in one place, the user will also find a lot of garbage The Problem: User Perspective University Organized ResearchUnit web site University Organized ResearchUnit web site University Organized ResearchUnit web site

  17. The Solution: Faculty Perspective eScholarship Repository ORU X working papers ORU Y working papers ORU Z working papers Papers are easily uploaded to an individual ORU Unit web site that is part of the eScholarship Repository

  18. The Solution: Faculty Perspective eScholarship Repository ejournals ORU X working papers ORU Y working papers ORU Z working papers ebooks Some papers may undergo peer review and be published in books or journals

  19. The Solution: User Perspective eScholarship Repository Topic-Based Virtual Portal ejournals ORU X working papers ORU Y working papers ORU Z working papers ebooks Different views of the papers (e.g., by topic area) can be easily constructed

  20. The Solution: User Perspective eScholarship Repository University Organized ResearchUnit workingpapers University Organized ResearchUnit workingpapers University Organized ResearchUnit workingpapers Web Search Engines Directly 3 ways to search all university working papers Open Archives

  21. The Solution: University Perspective Descriptive information on available papers eScholarship Repository ORU X working papers ORU Y working papers ORU Z working papers Metadata from the repository can easily feed campus portals on university research

  22. eScholarship Repository • Allows for federation as well as institute branding • Library commitment to maintain over time • Formats normalized; goal -> structured text • Streamlines institute publication processes • Competition for commercial pre-print ventures with pay to deposit and pay to subscribe models

  23. Digital Dissemination: Some Concerns • Quality of content – role of peer review • Imprimatur • Citability • Persistence/Access in perpetuity • Intellectual Property Issues

  24. Why work together? • Challenge to develop financially sustainable models to fulfill the library’s mission, maintain the quality of the print record, exploit possibilities for enhancements, and benefit all interested parties: research community, libraries, gov’t, and the public • Experiments, successful or not, beneficial to scientists, humanists and social scientists in UC and beyond. None of us can do this alone. • Preserve the gift culture of the academy

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