eScholarship
launches a redesigned website October 19, with a substantial array of
digital publishing services for the University of California scholarly
community and a dynamic research platform for scholars worldwide.
Previously known as UC’s eScholarship Repository, the new eScholarship
offers a robust scholarly publishing platform that enables departments,
research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated
with the University of California to have direct control over the
creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.
“Our relaunch of eScholarship reflects the enormous value we see in
recasting the institutional repository as an open access publisher,” says
Catherine Mitchell, Director of the Publishing Group at the California
Digital Library. “There is significant need across the University of
California campuses for a sustainable infrastructure to support the
publication and dissemination of research. In our efforts to respond to
this need, we have watched our institutional repository evolve into a
dynamic platform for the original publication of scholarly work.” ...
Books published in eScholarship are now eligible for a combined
digital/print publication service, courtesy of UC Publishing Services
(UCPubS), a joint program of UC Press and the California Digital Library.
In addition, eScholarship now offers conference lifecycle support,
including mechanisms for proposal submission, program display, and the
ultimate publication of proceedings.
Much of the site redesign has been focused on improving the quality of
access to eScholarship publications. The site is optimized for Google
searches; PDFs can be viewed in their entirety without download; and
research can be shared easily through third party social networking sites
and RSS feeds.
Likewise, the ability to locate relevant scholarship within the new site
is greatly improved ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
