CDL recently hosted a webinar series for Users Council that’s now widely available to UC staff.  (The CDL’s Users Council is a group responsible for communicating information between the CDL and the campuses concerning use of CDL tools, services and collections.  Users Council consists of a liaison from each UC campus, including LBNL, LLNL and the Regional Library Facilities.  A CDL representative is an ex officio member. ) 

The topics covered were chosen through a member survey, with survey expertise provided by CDL’s Senior Assessment Analyst Jane Lee. 

This year there were six lively sessions covering the following ground:

• Melvyl: A Snapshot of Issues, Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery and Lena Zentall, Project Manager, Discovery & Delivery
• Services Today & Tomorrow, Laine Farley, Executive Director, CDL
• What’s Happening in Collections: 15 Triumphs in 30 Minutes, Wendy Parfrey, Shared Content Coordinator
• User Experience Design and CDL, Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager
• eScholarship: Supporting OA Scholarly Communication at UC, Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access& Publishing; Justin Gonder, eScholarship Product Manager; and Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer
• HathiTrust and Mass Digitization, Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager

Each of the one-hour recordings, along with PowerPoint slides, is available for your viewing at:   http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/

(The presentations are password protected because some of the information is not for public consumption.)

UC Researchers are publishing open access articles on a fascinating array of topics—from minimum wage to green marketing to nursing practice.  This quarter’s top ten most popular eScholarship articles include the following:

UC Berkeley: “Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties” by Dube, Andrajit;Lester, T. William;Reich, Michael, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment: Working Paper Series
Requests: 4,535

UC Davis: “Ultracapacitor Technologies and Application in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles” by Burke, Andy, Institute of Transportation Studies (UCD): Recent Work
Requests: 1,523

UC Irvine: “A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis” by Korotayev, Andrey V;Tsirel, Sergey V., Social Dynamics and Complexity: Structure and Dynamics
Requests: 2,714

UC Los Angeles: “An Introduction To Green Marketing” by Polonsky, Michael Jay, UCLA Library: Electronic Green Journal
Requests: 12,481

UC Merced: “Transmodernidad: un nuevo paradigma” by Rodríguez Magda, Rosa María, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts: TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
Requests: 1,172

UC Riverside: “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” by Lyubomirsky, S;Sheldon, K M;Schkade, D, : UC Riverside Previously Published Papers
Requests: 1,724

UC Santa Barbara: “Twain’s Rhetoric of Irony in ‘the War-Prayer’” by Lock, Helen, American Cultures and Global Contexts Center: Journal of Transnational American Studies
Requests: 2,392

UC Santa Cruz: “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” by DAVIES, JAMES B;Shorrocks, Anthony;Sandstrom, Susanna;WOLFF, EDWARD N, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies: Mapping Global Inequalities
Requests: 2,929

UC San Diego: “Nursing Practice, Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceived Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice at an Academic Medical Center” by Brown, Caroline E.;Wickline, Mary;Ecoff, Laurie;Glaser, Dale, UC San Diego Libraries: Libraries’ Research Works
Requests: 2,473

UC San Francisco: “Internalized stigma of mental illness: psychometric properties of a new measure” by Boyd formerly Ritsher, Jennifer E, : UC San Francisco Previously Published Papers
Requests: 1,622

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: “VISCOSITY OF AQUEOUS SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTIONS FROM 0 – 150oC” by Ozbek, H., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Requests: 1,906

Curious about your campus activity in this area?  Check it out at the following links:

UCB:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucb_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCD:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucd_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCI:       http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/uci_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCLA:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucla_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCM:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucm_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCR:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucr_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSD:   http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsd_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSF:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsf_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSB:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsb_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSC:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsc_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for future revisions.  We would also be interested in hearing how your campus uses these reports and if you receive any feedback about them from your constituencies.  Please send your ideas to help@escholarship.org

He went on to say that these collections create a platform that supports not only the collection itself but also other connections.  He quoted Roy Rosenzweig, founder of the Center for History and New Media, who believed in creating ” a generative platform for undefined future uses”.  Such platforms must be open and support APIs. They must also be able to disclose their metadata as another means of exploring the collection that can “enable or disable” forms of inquiry.

These observations certainly ring true with CDL’s experience in aggregating collections and supporting platforms for their use, such as for eScholarship or Calisphere.  While these services may have once been focused on becoming portals, now they are more aligned with being platforms supporting a range of uses.  We know that most users arrive not through the front door but from a referral in another source or from a web search engine.  Objects need to be able to stand on their own rather than relying on an organized pathway to their place in the collection.  They must provide context to reveal the larger collection or their related associates within it.  But there is more to be done to enable those “undefined future uses” if we think about how the text (in the case of eScholarship) and the metadata could be mined, or how to take advantage of commentary and corrections from users.  We should focus on other ways to make these services function “at the network level” or to think about the web first, something Cohen noted as a principle when designing new services.  The problem to solve these days is not discovery but how to provide context and the means to select and filter, either within the service itself or to allow others to do so.  Search facets have been used for this purpose, but there are other methods to reveal the peaks and valleys within a collection and to enable deeper exploration.  Part of our curatorial role is to analyze collections and be open to having others analyze them, to help shape them for future scholarship.

ORCID is governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders from the global scholarly research community, the majority of whom are non-profits. 

Congratulations, Lisa.

Please join us in welcoming Katie Fortney to the CDL as our new Copyright Management Officer.  

Some of you may already know Katie from her previous incarnation as Collection Development Librarian and Scholarly Communication Officer at UC Santa Cruz, where she: chaired UCSC’s Scholarly Communication and Intellectual Property team; created educational resources and training sessions for faculty, staff and students on the legal and practical issues related to open access publishing, fair use, data archiving, metadata copyright, and database license issues; and proved an invaluable advisor to the Grateful Dead Archive Online project team and Library Special Collections on the copyright, trademark, and privacy issues unique to that collection. At the CDL, Katie will focus on many of the same activities in support of systemwide services and initiatives, including the Open Access policy, eScholarship publishing services, data management and curation, digital special collections risk management, copyright education, and national/international copyright and scholarly communication legislation and policy issues. 

Katie comes to this work with a strong background in both law (JD, New York University) and library science (MLIS, San Jose State University) – and with the uniquely beneficial perspective of someone who has worked in the trenches of a UC campus. 

Welcome, Katie!

Each quarter, the CDL sends a report to each campus Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) with information about that campus’s use of eScholarship as well as total usage systemwide.  Instead of sending the reports out in email form this quarter, CDL Publishing & Access staff has converted them to an online form that will be much easier for us to generate in the future and will be easier (we hope) for campus constituents to share with colleagues.

Want to know which campus has a publication that was viewed more than 11,000 times—and what it is?   Or which campus has added 13 new journals or academic units in eScholarship?  Check out the reports below.

The reports contain data about the eScholarship activity for each campus and Lawrence Berkeley Lab during the previous reporting period, including:

• The top ten most frequently read publications
• New journals, units and series established in eScholarship by your faculty/students
• Total number of your campus eScholarship publications

We have also provided the following data to offer a more holistic view of eScholarship activity systemwide:

• The most popular paper, by campus
• Total number of eScholarship publications, by campus

Finally, you can view a downloadable activity report detailing the full breadth of eScholarship publications from your campus, organized by academic unit and journal, as of the end of Q4 2012. Usage metrics for these units and journals are provided in the report, including:

• Total number of items posted per month
• Total historical requests for these publications
• Percentage of online views that led to publication downloads

All of the reports can be viewed below:

LBNL: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/lbnl_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCB: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucb_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCD: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucd_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCI: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/uci_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCLA: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucla_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCM: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucm_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCR: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucr_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCSB: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsb_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCSC: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsc_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCSD: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsd_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

UCSF: http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsf_quarterly_report_q4_2012.html

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for future revisions.  We would also be interested in hearing how your campus uses these reports and if you receive any feedback about them from your constituencies.  Please send your ideas to help@escholarship.org

eScholarship has a new look! 

Over the past few months, we’ve redesigned the eScholarship homepage and informational pages to enable us to highlight important events within the scholarly communications environment and new services within UC’s eScholarship repository and Open Access publishing platform.  This new site includes feature stories, faculty interviews, popular research lists, and a refined navigational system to help faculty, students and librarians move easily through our various service offerings.  Note:  All publication pages remain unchanged and will be redesigned in consultation with our publishing community in the next phase of this work.

This month, we’re highlighting the following stories in eScholarship:

UCSF’s Open Access policy:  Learn about the recent passage of a campus-wide Open Access policy for all faculty journal articles and our work in supporting the implementation of the policy.

Public Knowledge Project Partnership:  CDL has signed on as one of PKP’s major development partners, working specifically to refine the Open Journals System (OJS) platform that provides peer review and manuscript management workflows for journal publishing.

eScholarship PLUS:  We are now providing eBook and Print-On-Demand production, distribution and sales services for book series and journals featured in eScholarship.  Learn more!

And don’t miss our video interview with Rich Schneider, Professor of Orthopaedic Medicine at UCSF, on why Open Access publishing matters…immensely!

www.escholarship.org

We are eager for your feedback on this new site and encourage you to contact us with any thoughts at help@escholarship.org

The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This service will enable publishing units within UC to develop hybrid OA business models for their publications. Books and journals enrolled in this service will be freely accessible via eScholarship while simultaneously offered for sale in POD and ebook formats via self-branded ecommerce storefronts and through retail affiliates such as Amazon.com.

In order to support this new publishing model, eScholarship has contracted with Lulu to provide a POD/ebook publishing and ecommerce platform. Working with the Lulu-powered platform will offer many significant advantages to publishing units. The intuitive online interface makes it easy to upload publications, manage descriptive information, and check the status of a publication—or to provide permission for authors to do so. Publishing units will have real-time access to sales and royalty information. Publications will be cross-linked between the two platforms, increasing discoverability and providing readers with multiple mechanisms for accessing the material. And the ecommerce storefront will be co-branded with the publishing unit/name and logo and the eScholarship/University of California logo, highlighting the high academic quality of the research being published.

This program’s goals are to empower publishing units to:

• Publish in multiple formats, with multiple business models
• Focus on scholarly publishing rather than on distribution, e-commerce, and web platform development
• Maintain full control over the publishing program and process
• Access real-time sales and analytics

For more information, read our FAQ

Want to get started? Contact us today!

The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).  Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines,” the OASPA focuses on standards development, business modeling, Gold OA advocacy and education within the academy and beyond.  The eScholarship journals program was reviewed by the OASPA board and determined to be aligned with the association’s code of conduct, as described here:  http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/.  The CDL is delighted to join the OASPA and to join the important work of identifying and implementing best practices for Open Access scholarly publishing.

View the complete list of OASPA members:  http://oaspa.org/membership/members/

Major features in the 3.1 release include:

• Improved schema handling for EAD finding aids.  In addition to EAD 2002 DTD,  XTF now provides support for search and display of:
  • EAD 2002 schema and EAD 2002 RelaxNG finding aids
  • Output from Archivists’ Toolkit and Archon
• Better OAI 2.0 conformance
• Dynamic site maps to support optimal search engine indexing

See the 3.1 change log (http://xtf.cdlib.org/documentation/changelog/#3.1) for further details.

XTF is a combination of Java and XSLT 2.0 that indexes, queries, and displays digital objects and is based on open source software (e.g. Lucene and Saxon).  XTF can be downloaded from the XTF website (http://xtf.cdlib.org/download/) or from the XTF Project page on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtf/), where the source code can also be found. 

The XTF website also provides a self-guided tutorial and a sample of the default installation (http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search), demonstrating the capabilities of the tool out-of-the-box. Both of these resources provide a quick view of the capabilities of XTF prior to download.

Offering a suite of customizable features that support diverse intellectual access to content, XTF interfaces can be designed to support the distinct tools and presentations that are useful and meaningful to specific audiences.  In addition, XTF offers the following core features:

• Easy to deploy: Drops directly in to a Java application server such as Tomcat or Resin; has been tested on Solaris, Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
• Easy to configure: Can create indexes on any XML element or attribute; entire presentation layer is customizable via XSLT.
• Robust: Optimized to perform well on large documents (e.g., a single text that exceeds 10MB of encoded text); scales to perform well on collections of millions of documents; provides full Unicode support.
• Extensible:
• Works well with a variety of authentication systems (e.g., IP address lists, LDAP, Shibboleth).
• Provides an interface for external data lookups to support thesaurus-based term expansion, recommender systems, etc.
• Can power other digital library services (e.g., XTF contains an OAI-PMH data provider that allows others to harvest metadata, and an SRU interface that exposes searches to federated search engines).
• Can be deployed as separate, modular pieces of a third-party system (e.g., the module that displays snippets of matching text).
• Powerful for the enduser:
• Spell checking of queries
• Faceted displays for browsing
• Dynamically updated browse lists
• Session-based bookbags

These basic features can be tuned and modified.  For instance, the same bookbag feature that allows users to store links to entire books can also store links to citable elements of an object, such as a note or other reference.

Examples of XTF-based applications both within and outside of the CDL include:

• eScholarship (http://www.escholarship.org), the University of California’s open access scholarly publishing and research platform.
• Mark Twain Project Online (http://www.marktwainproject.org), developed by the Mark Twain Papers Project, the CDL and the University of California Press.
• Calisphere (http://calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/), a curated collection of primary sources keyed to the curriculum standards of California’s K-12 community, developed by the CDL.
• SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project (prototype) (http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/search), linking together descriptions of people from finding aids using the new standard Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), developed by IATH, University of Virginia (http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/staff.html#iath ), the CDL and the UC Berkeley School of Information (http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/staff.html#ucbsi).
• Various collections at the University of Sydney, Australia, including: Frontiers of Science, University of Sydney Library (http://frontiers.library.usyd.edu.au/); the Sydney College of the Arts Archive (http://va.library.usyd.edu.au).
• The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/), developed by the Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University.
• The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/) and The Swinburne Project (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/), Indiana University.