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

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