Library Publishing Directory

2019

University of California

California Digital Library

Publishing Group

2019 CONTACT:
Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing; Operations Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
Phone: 510-587-6132
Email: catherine.mitchell@ucop.edu

Program Overview

We are an open access publishing program for journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other UC-affiliated original scholarship. We offer publishing and production tools, including a full editorial and peer review system, as well as professional support and consulting services.

Publishing Activities Began: 2002
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 1%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 6
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 49
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 9
  • Monographs: 68
  • Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 3
  • Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 2
  • ETDs: 4615
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 153
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 73
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 12
Hybrid Publishing:
  • Monographs: 6

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • eScholarship has no particular domain focus. We support the entire range of academic inquiry, from established disciplines to newly emerging fields.
Top Publications:
  • Dermatology Online Journal (journal)
  • Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (journal)
  • California Agriculture (journal)
  • Perspectives in Medical Humanities (book series)
  • California Classical Studies (book series)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs
University Press Partners: University of California Press

Best publications to refer to our program: SHARE, CrossRef (via EZID), Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
  • We display PDF (rendered as an image), but can accept any format of file as a supplemental file and allow end users to download it. We stream audio and video.
Softwares & Platforms:
  • OJS
  • locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • UC3 Merritt
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
In the coming year we will be implementing Editoria, an open source, web-based editing & production workflow tool for book publishing.
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