eScholarship Publishing Program

Director: Catherine Mitchell
Technical Lead: Lisa Schiff

The eScholarship Publishing Program provides low-cost, alternative publication services for the UC community, supports widespread distribution of the materials that result from research and teaching at UC, and fosters new models of scholarly publishing through development and application of advanced technologies. CDL's eScholarship® Publishing Suite includes an institutional repository replete with manuscript management, publishing, and seminar/conference services, as well as a growing number of collaborative publishing projects with the University of California Press. All of these services are a part of UC's broader effort to ensure a sustainable scholarly publishing system in the service of the University’s research and teaching enterprise.

The eScholarship Publishing Program supports these innovative projects:

• eScholarship Repository: an open-access publishing platform that offers UC departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, postprints, and seminar papers. These materials are freely available to the public online.
• eScholarship Editions: a collection of digital scholarly monographs, including nearly 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the electronic books is free for all UC faculty, staff, and students; a significant number of books are also available free to the public.
• Mark Twain Project Online: a groundbreaking digital critical edition of Mark Twain’s works that applies innovative search, display and citation technology to more than four decades of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. MTPO offers unfettered, intuitive access to authoritative texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents. At beta launch, the site included more than 2,300 letters written between 1853 and 1880, including nearly 100 facsimiles of originals. In future years, the site will release more of the nearly 10,000 known letters, including many never before published; electronic editions of many of Mark Twain's most famous literary works; the most complete catalog of Mark Twain's writings currently available; and, in 2010, Mark Twain's Autobiography, never before published in its complete form. MTPO is available at no charge to institutions or individuals.

More information about the eScholarship program:

• eScholarship news: Provides links to news, press releases, and articles.
• Reshaping scholarly communication: Information from UC's Office of Scholarly Communication about the challenges of scholarly publishing and opportunities for UC faculty to make a difference.