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California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository
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Peter Suber
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California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository
Reaches Major Milestones
The California Digital Library announced today that its groundbreaking
eScholarship Repository has reached several major milestones. The
eScholarship Repository
(<http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/>http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
) offers University of California faculty a central online location for
depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, datasets
with commentary and peer-reviewed series. It is free for scholars to upload
papers and free to users to download them.
Launched in April 2002, the eScholarship Repository recently reached 1,200
papers. Users have logged 60,000 full-text downloads of repository
scholarship. Nearly 100 UC institutes, departments, research units and
centers from nine UC campuses have joined the repository. The milestones
demonstrate the repository s role as a scholarly publishing and research
hub as well as its growing importance in the academic community.
The eScholarship Repository is at the vanguard of a movement to disseminate
scholarly materials at low or no cost over the Internet. The repository
serves as a model for other universities, libraries and institutions around
the world. It also supports peer-reviewed series, which offer scholars an
alternative to for-profit journals.
We are pleased that so many faculty are signing on to join and that so many
researchers are flocking to the repository to view the research located
there, said Catherine H. Candee, director for scholarly communication
initiatives for the California Digital Library. The fact that over 95
percent of full-text downloads are coming from outside the University of
California indicates that there is a hunger for this form of distribution.
It also shows that the repository is enabling UC scholars to get their
research disseminated widely both within and outside of the university.
Materials are being shared between author and reader in entirely new ways.
The breadth of the scholarly content in the eScholarship Repository has
grown rapidly. An exceptionally wide range of subjects can be found in the
repository, including social science, business, education, humanities, and
the sciences.
The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Center for Studies in Higher
Education at UC Berkeley, University of California Energy Institute (a
Multi-Campus Research Unit), Economics Department at UC Santa Barbara,
Center for Conservation Biology at UC Riverside and Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at UC San Diego are just a few of the UC academic departments
and research units with repository sites.
There are many benefits for faculty who participate in the eScholarship
Repository. Faculty can expect to have increased exposure and use of their
scholarly materials. They can also submit associated content, such as
images, spreadsheets, datasets, or PowerPoint presentations, along with
their papers. Each participating research unit and academic department has
its own site within the eScholarship Repository. The group decides what
goes into their repository site and is responsible for maintaining it.
"I am delighted to have had the Institute for Social Science Research be
one of the first research units at UCLA to join the eScholarship
Repository, said David O. Sears, the director of the institute and a
professor of psychology and political science. Participating in the
repository has increased our visibility and contributed to the exchange of
research in the social sciences. I am especially grateful for the archival
benefits. Because the scholarly materials we contribute will be maintained
by the CDL for the long-term future, we can better support our faculty
affiliates."
System administrators at institutes and departments benefit from the
repository s streamlined submission, processing and posting tools, which
were created by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). New technology
allows readers to discover and view relevant research by topic, author or
sponsoring unit. Users can sign up for a service alerting them to new
content, tailored to their interests. The repository s compliance with the
Open Archives Initiative allows content to be more easily discovered on the
Internet.
The eScholarship Repository has reduced the cost and increased the reach of
our publications, said Stanton A. Glantz, a UC San Francisco professor of
medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and
Education. It provides an important addition to traditional journal
publishing.
By providing a university-supplied infrastructure, faculty are able to
deposit their materials within UC instead of paying for high-priced
commercial alternatives. As the repository continues to grow, increasing
numbers of scholars will find it to be an indispensable resource for
research and teaching, which showcases UC research to an even wider audience.
The eScholarship Repository is a project of the California Digital Library
s eScholarship program
(<http://escholarship.cdlib.org/>http://escholarship.cdlib.org/), which was
launched to facilitate innovations and support experiments in the
production and dissemination of scholarship.
The California Digital Library
(<http://www.cdlib.org/>http://www.cdlib.org/), which partners with the 10
UC campuses in a continuing commitment to apply innovative technology to
managing scholarly information, opened to the public in January 1999.
Organizationally housed at the UC Office of the President in Oakland,
Calif., the CDL provides a centralized framework to efficiently share
materials held by UC, to provide greater and easier access to digital
content, and to join with researchers in developing new tools and
innovations for scholarly communication.
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Editors: For additional information, please contact Suzanne Samuel at the
CDL, (510) 587-6132 or <mailto:John.-@ucop.edu> eschol-@ucop.edu
. Additional information about the California Digital Library and
eScholarship may be found at <http://www.cdlib.org/>http://www.cdlib.org
and <http://escholarship.cdlib.org/>http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ .
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<div align="center"><h2><b>California Digital Library's eScholarship
Repository<br>
Reaches Major Milestones</b></h2></div>
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</font>The California Digital Library announced today that its
groundbreaking eScholarship Repository has reached several major
milestones. The eScholarship Repository
(<a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/">http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/</a>
) offers University of California faculty a central online location for
depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, datasets
with commentary and peer-reviewed series. It is free for scholars to
upload papers and free to users to download them. <br><br>
Launched in April 2002, the eScholarship Repository recently reached
1,200 papers. Users have logged 60,000 full-text downloads of repository
scholarship. Nearly 100 UC institutes, departments, research units and
centers from nine UC campuses have joined the repository. The milestones
demonstrate the repository s role as a scholarly publishing and research
hub as well as its growing importance in the academic community.
<br><br>
The eScholarship Repository is at the vanguard of a movement to
disseminate scholarly materials at low or no cost over the Internet. The
repository serves as a model for other universities, libraries and
institutions around the world. It also supports peer-reviewed series,
which offer scholars an alternative to for-profit journals.<br><br>
We are pleased that so many faculty are signing on to join and that so
many researchers are flocking to the repository to view the research
located there, said Catherine H. Candee, director for scholarly
communication initiatives for the California Digital Library. The fact
that over 95 percent of full-text downloads are coming from outside the
University of California indicates that there is a hunger for this form
of distribution. <br><br>
It also shows that the repository is enabling UC scholars to get their
research disseminated widely both within and outside of the university.
Materials are being shared between author and reader in entirely new
ways. <br><br>
The breadth of the scholarly content in the eScholarship Repository has
grown rapidly. An exceptionally wide range of subjects can be found in
the repository, including social science, business, education,
humanities, and the sciences. <br><br>
The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Center for Studies in Higher
Education at UC Berkeley, University of California Energy Institute (a
Multi-Campus Research Unit), Economics Department at UC Santa Barbara,
Center for Conservation Biology at UC Riverside and Scripps Institution
of Oceanography at UC San Diego are just a few of the UC academic
departments and research units with repository sites. <br><br>
There are many benefits for faculty who participate in the eScholarship
Repository. Faculty can expect to have increased exposure and use of
their scholarly materials. They can also submit associated content, such
as images, spreadsheets, datasets, or PowerPoint presentations, along
with their papers. Each participating research unit and academic
department has its own site within the eScholarship Repository. The group
decides what goes into their repository site and is responsible for
maintaining it.<br><br>
"I am delighted to have had the Institute for Social Science
Research be one of the first research units at UCLA to join the
eScholarship Repository, said David O. Sears, the director of the
institute and a professor of psychology and political science.
Participating in the repository has increased our visibility and
contributed to the exchange of research in the social sciences. I am
especially grateful for the archival benefits. Because the scholarly
materials we contribute will be maintained by the CDL for the long-term
future, we can better support our faculty affiliates."
<br><br>
System administrators at institutes and departments benefit from the
repository s streamlined submission, processing and posting tools, which
were created by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). New technology
allows readers to discover and view relevant research by topic, author or
sponsoring unit. Users can sign up for a service alerting them to new
content, tailored to their interests. The repository s compliance with
the Open Archives Initiative allows content to be more easily discovered
on the Internet. <br><br>
The eScholarship Repository has reduced the cost and increased the reach
of our publications, said Stanton A. Glantz, a UC San Francisco professor
of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and
Education. It provides an important addition to traditional journal
publishing. <br><br>
By providing a university-supplied infrastructure, faculty are able to
deposit their materials within UC instead of paying for high-priced
commercial alternatives. As the repository continues to grow, increasing
numbers of scholars will find it to be an indispensable resource for
research and teaching, which showcases UC research to an even wider
audience.<br><br>
The eScholarship Repository is a project of the California Digital
Library s eScholarship program
(<a href="http://escholarship.cdlib.org/">http://escholarship.cdlib.org/</a>),
which was launched to facilitate innovations and support experiments in
the production and dissemination of scholarship. <br><br>
The California Digital Library
(<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/">http://www.cdlib.org/</a>), which
partners with the 10 UC campuses in a continuing commitment to apply
innovative technology to managing scholarly information, opened to the
public in January 1999. Organizationally housed at the UC Office of the
President in Oakland, Calif., the CDL provides a centralized framework to
efficiently share materials held by UC, to provide greater and easier
access to digital content, and to join with researchers in developing new
tools and innovations for scholarly communication.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><a name="_hlt430417111"></a> Editors: For
additional information, please contact Suzanne Samuel at the CDL, (510)
587-6132 or <a href="mailto:John.-@ucop.edu"> eschol-@ucop.edu
</a>. Additional information about the California Digital Library
and eScholarship may be found at
<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/">http://www.cdlib.org</a> and
<a href="http://escholarship.cdlib.org/">http://escholarship.cdlib.org/</a><a name="_hlt430417111"></a>
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