eScholarship Infrastructure

Repositories

Repository software enables scholars to easily deposit their papers with a reliable and reputable organization that will ensure their availability and accessibility. To provide this service, we are using EdiKit software from Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), which CDL helped shape under a co-development agreement. In April 2002, we launched the eScholarship Repository using this infrastructure.

Prior to this, we experimented with using the Eprints open source software from the University of Southampton, and created several prototype digital repositories, now migrated over to the eScholarship Repository.

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Journals

The eScholarship Repository supports journals and peer-reviewed series, which use the bepress Edikit software, designed to manage the peer review process online. A new science eScholarship Repository journal will begin publishing this fall. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection was launched in Summer 2002.

The Dermatology Online Journal uses a technical infrastructure developed by faculty and staff at UC Davis to manage the production of the journal. This infrastructure includes Perl scripts to take article submissions and automatically mark them up in HTML for publication on the web site.

Books

We are developing two methods for book publishing. The first is an Adobe Acrobat-based infrastructure that uses the bepress EdiKit software. This system allows authors and editors to manage the entire process from their desktops, from submission through peer review to final online publication. For examples, see the UCIAS Digital Collection.

To maximize the benefits of publishing books in structured text, we are also creating an XML (Extensible Markup Language) publishing infrastructure. XML enables robust user services including on-the-fly displays (both pre-configured and user specified) and sophisticated search capabilities. It also allows for easier migration to new formats and global changes. For examples, see the UC Press eScholarship Editions.

For more information about the technologies involved, please see our information on how eScholarship uses XML.

Interactive Publications

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative publishes interactive publications using the TimeMap software. TimeMap is an application that allows the user to interact with geospatially- and time-referenced information data sets as well as images and critical commentary. The TimeMap application is available both as a freely downloadable PC client and also via a Web-based Java applet.