1. The Role of the
Institutional Repository
in Scholarly Publishing
SSP Annual Meeting June 6-8, 2007
Catherine H. Candee
Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives
California Digital Library
2. Overview
Two noble goals
Publishing services at UC
What is the eScholarship Repository?
Lessons from experience, surveys and a bit of
reflection
What is the role of the institutional repository in
scholarly publishing?
3. Two Nobel Goals, intersecting
Control of institutional digital assets
Development of a fair and sustainable
scholarly publishing system
4. CDL Publishing Services
Provide low-cost alternative publishing services
for the UC community
Support widespread distribution of the
materials that result from research & teaching
Foster new models of scholarly publishing
through the development and application of
advanced technologies
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17. Time for change?
Economics of scholarly publishing still troublesome
New technologies hold promise for more
innovative and more cost-effective publishing
Greater challenges and opportunities for UC
services in support of research & teaching
BUT…Experiments extended as far as existing
organizational structures (UC Press and CDL) and
budgets will allow
18. Provostial Task Force
Co-chaired by Director of UC Press and Director
of Publishing, CDL
Environmental scan of research priorities and
current/future publishing needs @UC
Seek efficiencies among UC systemwide
publishing services; build collaboration
Advise administration on role for the university
in scholarly publishing
19. Principles for University of Calif.
Publishing Services
The university must provide a research infrastructure
that ensures productivity and stimulates innovation
Publishing is more than the production of an archival
record; it is an integral part of the research infrastructure
Publishing must embrace a suite of production activities,
some of which will be revenue generating
Publishing must enable faculty to create and distribute
works via the most appropriate method
Publishing must enable the discovery, use and re-use of
content in support of research, teaching and learning
20. Findings: faculty survey; campus
visits
Enormous amount of publishing activity and growing
Science faculty relatively content w/ publishing system
Faculty, esp. in humanities, distinguish between in-
process scholarly comm and “archival publication”
Tenure criteria are a major impediment to use of non-
standard formats for “archival publication”
Growing % of UC faculty are desperate for university
support for creating, validating, publishing, recognizing
their new scholarly communication activities
21. UC Strategy
Align UC publishing services with the academic
enterprise
Broaden the capacity of the university press;
reclaim the original role of the university press
Coordinate planning across the UC system; develop
intersections in IT planning, digital stewardship,
research data support, publishing and preservation
Develop publishing services to be interoperable
with services for research data
22. UC Publishing 2007-2008
Extend repository-based services to support the
implementation of UC policy on faculty copyright; ETDs
Formalize a collaboratory structure for UC Press and CDL’s
eScholarship Office to focus efforts in publishing initiatives
Provide a more robust journal publication service: offer a
menu of choices for editorial assistance, production quality,
print and access options
Implement cost-recovery mechanisms; secure open access
options
Seek efficiencies across traditional publishing modalities, e.g.,
books and journals; invest savings in R&D for emerging
publishing modalities
23. UC Publishing Services
Traditional Scholarly Publishing Services
Scholarly monographs
Peer-reviewed journals
Dissemination & Repository Services
Working papers, technical reports, etc.
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Postprint Repository
New Publishing Models
Distributed Editorial Boards
Digital Critical Editions
Interactive map-based publications in soc sciences &
humanities
Science reference/collaboration with museums
Hinweis der Redaktion
; libraries continue to buy shrinking percentage of output