California Digital Library e Scholarship Repository Intl Conference
California Digital Library e. Scholarship Repository Int’l Conference on Digital Institutional Repositories 9 -10 December 2004, Hong Kong Catherine H. Candee Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives Office of Scholarly Communication University of California
Why does UC want to change scholarly communication? n n 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 n n System wide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC): leads universitywide 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 n Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC): seeks to develop financially sustainable models and improve all areas of scholarly communication
e. Scholarship Program n n n Publishing and investigative tool in UC’s search for sustainable, alternative models e. Scholarship Repository: Library/faculty partnership; enables greater faculty control over publishing & dissemination e. Scholarship Editions: CDL/University Press partnership to extend publishing capabilities and experiment w/new roles
e. Scholarship Repository n n 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 e. Scholarship Repository n Dissemination quick and efficient; administrative time savings for unit/dept Allows federation and institute branding CDL commitment to persistent access n Multiple discovery methods: n n § Centrally for all UC at repositories. cdlib. org § Google and other web-crawled search services § Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting services
Post. Prints; Post. Ref? n n 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 “Post. Ref” service?
Publishing Partners: Faculty, Presses, & Societies n n n 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
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