CDLINFO Newsletter, November 10, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 21
CONTENTS
- eScholarship Repository Milestones
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. eScholarship Repository Milestones
The eScholarship Repository reached an important milestone last week: the 2,000,000th full-text download from the repository.
See < http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ >.
Adoption of the eScholarship Repository is accelerating. It took two years to log the first half-million downloads in the repository, but only a single year to reach the one million mark. Now, in less than nine months, use of the repository has doubled again, bringing the complete article and paper downloads beyond 2,000,000. The repository, which is used by UC scholars and researchers in more than 200 academic departments systemwide, should reach another significant milestone before year's end -- 10,000 unique paper and articles submissions.
Several new services have enhanced the eScholarship Repository's appeal. The Postprints service, which was launched in February of this year, increased submissions by 20% and seems to have fed rising interest in journals and other peer-reviewed series--including a new monographic series by UC Press http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/. Also, beginning this month the Postprints service supports submission of articles to the repository by author-assigned proxies. Finally, academic units and departments can retrospectively and virtually collect postprints into their branded collections without disturbing the unique Postprints collection. For more information see: http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html
2. For More Information
a. News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!
In addition, status information about CDL resources, reports, and working documents of particular interest to library staff are available on the Inside CDL web site.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing CDL resources or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, contact the CDL:- For immediate assistance, call the CDL Helpline at 510-987-0555. Callers with TDD equipment, please call 1-800-735-2929 in California for the telephone relay operator.
- Or, send an email to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
c. About CDLINFO
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