california digital library stewardship of scholarly and cultural assets at the university of...
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California Digital Library
Stewardship of Scholarly and Cultural Assets at the
University of California
Catherine H.CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California
Catherine H.CandeeDirector, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California
Scholarly Communication – a system in crisis The crisis reduces the university community’s
access to scholarly materials and limits the dissemination of scholarship
A failure to respond will jeopardize the pre-eminence of our research institutions, their contributions to scholarly inquiry, their effectiveness in teaching and learning, and their broader service to the public.
Gift culture of the academy is at stake
Why tackle scholarly communication at UC? A question of scale 32 million items held by UC; shared CD strategies
constrained; redundant print collections undermine development of collections needed for research & teaching
UC serials expenditures > $20 million, even with economies of scale
50% of budget for online materials are for journals receiving only 25% of the use.
UC faculty > 13% of senior editors at top 2,000 journals and a significant % of authors
Who’s Digital Assets are they?
Born-digital scholarship is proliferating, often without a print analog or adequate processes for digitally preserving it
Research and scholarly products must be managed in trusted repositories, in the academic/non-commercial sector.
The university has a stake in ensuring the long term management of the products of research & teaching– its primary activities
A brief portrait of CDL Collections include more than 230,000 online books, 8,000
scholarly journals, 4,500 statistical files, as well as 250 A & I databases, and over 1,000,000 digital surrogates for works in art & architecture
Tools enable the creation, capture, organization, customization, annotation, presentation, and long-term management of persistent, interoperable, and high-quality digital information
Services encourage the effective adaptation and use of CDL tools in three application areas – scholarly and educational publishing; content capture, aggregation and site building; digital preservation
Online Archive of California (OAC) Resource of finding aids
and digital content Free to students,
teachers and researchers Dates from 1995: birth of
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard
Today: 94 repositories; 8,000 finding aids; 150,000 images; 75,000 pages of texts
Services CDL Services encourage the effective
adaptation and use of CDL tools in three application areas: Content capture, aggregation & site building Digital Preservation Scholarly and Educational Publishing
Scholarly publishing, the most developed of these services, will be the focus of my talk. First, some examples of other services.
Preservation
UC’s Digital Preservation Program – Key Components Ensure long-term access to digital information
Digital Preservation Repository uses CDL’s common framework to build a shared service
Infrastructure can be exploited by the campuses and the CDL
Digital Preservation Repository manages a diverse array of content
Scholarly Publishing
…and University of California efforts to contribute to a sustainable scholarly publishing system
Unsustainable economics of scholarly journal publishing
Source: Bear Stearns European Equity Research report on Reed Elsevier. September 29, 2003
Monographs and the disciplines that need them are also affected
Source: Bear Stearns European Equity Research report on Reed Elsevier. September 29, 2003
eScholarship Program
Publishing and investigative tool in UC’s search for sustainable, alternative models
eScholarship Repository: Library/faculty partnership; enables greater faculty control over publishing & dissemination
eScholarship Editions: CDL/University Press partnership to extend publishing capabilities and experiment w/new roles
eScholarship Repository
Full spectrum publishing platform: pre-prints and reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals
Existing university structure: research units and departments are gatekeepers; editorial and administrative functions distributed
High adoption rate: 200+ UC academic units and departments on 10 campuses, labs and the Office of the President; 9,226 papers
High usage rate: 1,905,300 full-text downloads to date; 40,397 per week as of October 9, 2005
PostPrints Response to faculty desire for greater control
over management and use of creative output
Takes advantage of liberalized “reprint” (i.e., postprint) policies by publishers
Allows universities to capture and manage pools of content; allows development of new third-party value-added services (and may help end the fight over control of content)
Discovery, resolver, linking services needed
eScholarship Editions: partnering with Univ Press & Schol Societies Productive, dynamic CDL-UCP partnership:
nearly 2,000 XML schol monographs + new monographic series + UCIAS = new models for publication of book length scholarly works
Editorial: Enhance university press’ capacity (edit and tech) for publishing; use existing mechanisms to share editorial load; UCP “reviews the reviewers”
Technical: Redesigned workflow; CDL’s structured text infrastructure, streamline inputs and enhance outputs
Many fronts to UC effort to safeguard flow of scholarly output System wide Library and Scholarly Information
Advisory Committee (SLASIAC): leads university-wide effort to improve scholarly communication system to meet research & teaching mission
System wide Faculty Senate Advisory Committee on Scholarly Communication (SASC): leads senate actions to address issues of copyright management and tenure rewards
Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC): seeks to develop financially sustainable models and improve all areas of scholarly communication
