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<font size=2>[Forwarding from the California Digital Library.
--Peter Suber.] <br>
<b> <br><br>
</b>October 19, 2009<br>
Oakland, CA<br>
<br>
<b>New Look, Enhanced Services for eScholarship<br>
UC’s open access digital publishing service launches new site October
19<br>
</b> <br>
eScholarship
(<a href="http://www.escholarship.org/">www.escholarship.org</a>)
launches a redesigned website October 19, with a substantial array of
digital publishing services for the University of California scholarly
community and a dynamic research platform for scholars worldwide. <br>
Previously known as UC’s eScholarship Repository, the new eScholarship
offers a robust scholarly publishing platform that enables 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. <br>
<br>
“Our relaunch of eScholarship reflects the enormous value we see in
recasting the institutional repository as an open access publisher,” says
Catherine Mitchell, Director of the Publishing Group at the California
Digital Library. “There is significant need across the University of
California campuses for a sustainable infrastructure to support the
publication and dissemination of research. In our efforts to respond to
this need, we have watched our institutional repository evolve into a
dynamic platform for the original publication of scholarly work.” <br>
eScholarship’s relaunch coincides with the first international Open
Access Week (October 19 – 23), an event that marks the growing trend
toward providing unfettered access to academic research and publications
throughout the world.<br>
<b> <br>
eScholarship publication types<br>
</b>UC-affiliated scholars, editors, and research unit administrators can
publish the following original works in eScholarship:
<ul>
<li>Journals</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Books
<li>Working Papers</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Conference Proceedings</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Seminar/Paper Series
</ul> <br>
eScholarship also continues to provide deposit and dissemination services
for previously published articles or “postprints.”<br>
<b> <br>
New services, enhanced functionality<br>
<br>
</b>The relaunch of eScholarship brings new opportunities for digital
publishing to the University of California and offers substantially
improved services for previously supported publication types. <br>
Books published in eScholarship are now eligible for a combined
digital/print publication service, courtesy of UC Publishing Services
(UCPubS), a joint program of UC Press and the California Digital Library.
In addition, eScholarship now offers conference lifecycle support,
including mechanisms for proposal submission, program display, and the
ultimate publication of proceedings.<br>
Much of the site redesign has been focused on improving the quality of
access to eScholarship publications. The site is optimized for Google
searches; PDFs can be viewed in their entirety without download; and
research can be shared easily through third party social networking sites
and RSS feeds.<br>
Likewise, the ability to locate relevant scholarship within the new site
is greatly improved as a result of the implementation of:
<ul>
<li>a highly developed similar items finder</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>visual snippets of keywords within documents (KWIC Pics)
accessible from the search results page</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>facets for narrowing search results by UC campus,
discipline, and peer review–status</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>keyword search capability within
documents</font><font size=3> </font>
</ul><font size=2>These new services and tools all add up to a vastly
enhanced experience for authors, editors, and publishing program
directors – and for the researchers who seek out their work.<br>
<br>
<b>What can UC authors expect from publishing with eScholarship?</b>
<ul>
<li>Digital publication of original scholarship
<li>Digital dissemination of previously published materials
<li>Manuscript and peer-review management systems
<li>Significant reduction in time to publication
<li>Author retention of copyright
<li>Clear institutional affiliation and context
<li>
<a href="http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=560&Itemid=391">
Increased citation rates</a>*
<li>Perpetual access and preservation services
<li>Full-text search and display
<li>Comprehensive usage data
<li>Free setup, training, and publishing support
</ul><b>Who is using eScholarship?<br>
</b>Among its many services, eScholarship supports the original
publication of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals, including:
<ul>
<li><i>California Agriculture</i> (UC Davis)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2><i>Journal of Transnational American Studies</i> (UC
Santa Barbara)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2><i>Nutrition Bytes</i> (UCLA)</font><font size=3>
</font>
<li><font size=2><i>Places</i> (UC Berkeley)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2><i>San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science</i> (UC
Davis)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2><i>Western Journal of Emergency Medicine</i> (UC
Irvine)</font><font size=3> </font>
</ul><font size=2>“We have used eScholarship to manage, edit, and publish
the online journal <i>San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science</i>,”
says Dr. Samuel N. Luoma, <i>SFEWS </i>Editor-in-Chief.<i> </i>“As a
source of peer-reviewed, credible, and objective information,
<i>SFEWS</i> is recognized by all stakeholders as playing an important
role in understanding California’s water issues. We simply could not have
succeeded in bringing this information to scientists, the public, and
policy makers without the open access and high degree of professionalism
provided by eScholarship. eScholarship is a service of inestimable value
to the UC scholarly community, Californians in general, and the world.”
<br>
eScholarship also provides access to publications from nearly 250
research units and publishing programs across UC, including:
<ul>
<li>Center for Conservation Biology (UC Riverside)</font><font size=3>
</font>
<li><font size=2>Center for the Study of Democracy (UC
Irvine)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
(UCSF)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities (UC
Berkeley)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>International and Area Studies Publications (UC
Berkeley)
<li>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San
Diego)</font><font size=3> </font>
<li><font size=2>Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (UC Santa
Cruz)</font><font size=3> </font>
</ul><font size=2>“eScholarship is central to our publishing mission,
offering a level of access, discoverability, and online permanence that
traditional publishers cannot match,” says Nathan MacBrien, Publications
Director, International and Area Studies Publications, UC Berkeley.
“Anyone, anywhere in the world, with an Internet connection can read our
books, and that is particularly important for scholars in developing
countries where English-language books are difficult to come by.”<br>
<b> <br>
About eScholarship<br>
</b>Initiated in 2002 as a collaborative development effort between the
Berkeley Electronic Press and the California Digital Library,
eScholarship now houses over 30,000 publications with more than 9 million
downloads to date. eScholarship offers the UC academic community a robust
alternative to traditional scholarly publishing channels, supporting the
dissemination of UC research at all stages of the scholarly lifecycle to
all corners of the world. The rate of usage of these materials has grown
dramatically in the past 7 years, now often exceeding 170,000 full-text
downloads per month.<br>
<br>
eScholarship is a project of the Publishing Group of the California
Digital Library and a showcase for the group’s open source search and
display technology development. eScholarship’s publication submission
system was originally developed and is still maintained by the Berkeley
Electronic Press.<br>
*<a href="http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=560&Itemid=391" eudora="autourl">
http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=560&Itemid=391</a>
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________________________________________<br>
Elise Proulx<br>
Outreach & Marketing Coordinator<br>
Publishing Group<br>
California Digital Library<br>
University of California<br>
</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>510.587.6439 / 510.893.5212 (Fax)<br>
<a href="mailto:elise.proulx@ucop.edu">elise.proulx@ucop.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.escholarship.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.escholarship.org</a> <br>
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