The document discusses the role of institutional repositories in scholarly publishing. It outlines two goals of controlling institutional digital assets and developing a sustainable publishing system. It describes the publishing services at the California Digital Library, including supporting distribution of research and fostering new publishing models. It discusses findings from a faculty survey that found a growing amount of publishing activity and desire for university support of new scholarly communication activities. The role of institutional repositories is seen as aligning publishing services with research, broadening university press capacities, and coordinating planning across systems to support research, publishing, and preservation.

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