[BOAI] CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY JOINS PKP AS MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PARTNER IN OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the California Digital Library, via the JISC-Repositories
list.  --Peter Suber.]


 As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts
and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves
at a crossroads between publishers and faculty -- and eagerly working to
provide new solutions to entrenched problems.  The California Digital
Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University
of California system, focuses on supporting open source publishing
infrastructure through a major development partnership with the Public
Knowledge Project (PKP).****

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As a result of this agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP’s ongoing
development and support of its open source software suite — Open Journal
Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System
(OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year.**
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Chuck Eckman, Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University stated:
"The California Digital Library is widely recognized for its record of
innovation and leadership in the domain of scholarly publishing and the SFU
Library is thrilled at the prospects this new collaborative venture creates
for advancing our shared scholarly communication goals."  Laine Farley,
Executive Director of CDL, noted, “Not only are we extremely pleased with
the flexibility afforded by OJS, we are also delighted to join this growing
international community and contribute to the future growth of this
publishing solution.” ****

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The California Digital Library, in partnership with the University of
California campus libraries, supports and encourages open access publishing
initiatives within the UC system through its eScholarship publishing and
institutional repository platform. eScholarship provides a suite of open
access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable
departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars
associated with the University of California to have direct control over
the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.  Home
to 45 peer-reviewed journals (
http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=aa),
eScholarship has recently transitioned to OJS as its journal management and
submission system and has integrated OJS with its pre/post-print, books and
working papers repository, which contains more than 45,000 UC-affiliated
publications.  ****

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John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford
University, Library Scholar in Residence and Professor (Limited Term) in
Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and founding Director of PKP
stated: “Given the leadership, innovation, and engagement shown by CDL in
moving scholarly communication into a digital era marked by a spirit of
greater openness and sharing aimed at the advancement of learning, this
partnership provides a wonderful opportunity for PKP to further explore
ways that faculty and librarians can work together to make more of what we
do more of a public good.”****

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The California Digital Library provides digital library development and
support for the University of California libraries and the communities they
serve.  The CDL Publishing Group delivers open access digital publication
services to the University of California academic community, supports
widespread distribution of UC research materials, and fosters new models of
scholarly publishing through the development and application of advanced
technologies. (For further information contact Catherine Mitchell, director
of CDL Publishing at catherine.mitchell at ucop.edu 510.587.6132.)

PKP is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of
research.  With more than 11,500 installations of Open Journal Systems
(OJS); Open Conference Systems (OCS); and Open Harvester Systems (OHS)
around the world, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has proven that open
source software can be a game changer in scholarly publishing.

In September 2011, PKP officially launched a major sustainability campaign
to ensure the continued development and enhancement of its open source
software suite and to provide better support for the growing PKP user
community.  To find out more about this initiative and how your site can
become a PKP sponsor visit the PKP Web site at http://pkp.sfu.ca****

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Ellen Meltzer****

Information Services Manager****

University of California - California Digital Library****

415 20th Street****

Oakland, CA 94612****

510.987.9214****

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