University of California

California Digital Library

Academic Library · United States

eScholarship Publishing

https://escholarship.org/publishing

Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Email: help@escholarship.org

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
eScholarship Publishing provides comprehensive publication services for UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars who seek to publish original, open access journals, books, preprints, conference proceedings, and other forms of scholarship. Our publications often traverse standard disciplinary boundaries, explore new publishing models, support under-represented voices within the scholarly record, and reach communities and/or professionals in applied fields beyond academia.

Publishing activities began: 2022
Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
Open access focus: Central to mission
Portion of Open Access publications: All
Publishing Languages: Arabic; English; French; Italian; Portuguese; Spanish

Program Organization

Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
Advisory/editorial board: No
Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 6
Individual people: 10
Funding sources: Grants; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

Conference papers or proceedings
Datasets
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Grey literature
Journals
Monographs
Multimedia
Newsletters
Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 71
Campus-based faculty-created: 61
Campus-based student-created: 10
Peer-reviewed: 71
Required fee to enable Open Access: 4
Currently inactive or archived: 40

Monograph/Book Publishing:

Monographs published: 13
Required fee to enable Open Access:

Highlights

Top Publications:

Combinatorial Theory (journal)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal (journal)
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (journal)
Glossa Psycholinguistics (journal)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
multimedia
text
video

Software & Platforms:

DSpace
Janeway
locally developed software
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Pressbooks

Additional Services:

assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
Indexing services (e.g.
author advisory - copyright
cataloging
contract/license preparation
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
ISBN registry
ISSN registry
metadata
peer review management
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Internet Archive
HathiTrust
In-house
UC3 Merritt

Policies

Antiracism policy; Author rights/copyright policy; Conflict of interest policy; Name change policy; Open access policy; Privacy/confidentiality policy

Additional Information

Last Year:
eScholarship Publishing is transitioning its open access journal management system from OJS to Janeway. The effort involves the migration of over 90 journals, and is offering an opportunity to work with these journals on updating their author agreements, workflows, policies, and branding materials. In addition, we have recently expanded our publishing capacity by launching a University of California systemwide eScholarship Liaisons group that partners with eScholarship staff to serve the scholarly communication needs of the UC academic community, reaffirming the value of institution-based open access publishing/repositories and supporting the development of eScholarship services in response to user requirements and stakeholder goals.

Future Plans:
eScholarship Publishing is incorporating the work of the newly released UC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication toolkit in its journals program through editorial training. We plan to incorporate DEIA topics in future workshops on peer review, ethics, accessibility tools and processes, copyediting best practices, and more.