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):
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 programsUniversity 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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