UCI Libraries is providing leadership by offering a forum and facilitating campus discussions on these evolving issues. Through collaboration and a community dialogue, we can explore these issues, raise awareness, develop local solutions, and potentially influence the course of scholarly communication on campus.

UCI Libraries' Response and Role

The UCI Libraries serves as a major national knowledge center, and is recognized as an essential information resource and clearinghouse for the UCI campus. The Libraries can play a key role in assisting the UCI academic community to address many of the scholarly communication issues that we face. And it participates in several national nonprofit organizations that promote innovations in scholarly communication: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Consortium (SPARC), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and the National Institutes of Health, which in April 2008 issued new mandates for all funded research.

SCAMP: Scholarly Communication and Management Program

Some of the specific activities that the UCI Scholarly Communication Program will sponsor, promote, and explore are:

• Forums and programs about broad-based initiatives, such as the Open Archives Initiative.
• Issues of concern to the entire academic community, such as preservation and access to electronic educational records.
• Informal meetings among UCI faculty who serve as editorial board members or faculty who are developing new forms of scholarship.
• UCI Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund
• Data Management Policy @ UCI
• UCI initiatives to build an institutional repository of scholarly work in electronic formats and selectively digitize and preserve UCI administrative records of permanent historical significance. 
  • Launches UC Irvine Libraries Digital Scholarship Service to help UC Irvine faculty and research staff publish, share and preserve the digital products of their research.  As the processes and products of research increasingly take digital forms, this service seeks to place research findings or data in accessible, secure, sustainable environments so they may be easily shared over time.  UC Irvine Librarians will assist the UCI community in finding the most appropriate access and storage platforms to preserve their research and disseminate their materials broadly.  The service may help some researchers fulfill agency or grant requirements to post their research findings or data publicly.  The service may also support researchers who wish to preserve and provide access to unique digital materials with research value.  The ultimate goal of this service is to support the digital life cycle of UCI's scholarly resources, from creation through their delivery, management and long-term preservation.
  • As part of this service, the Libraries has developed UCIspace@theLibraries, an open access service for the UCI community to publish, manage, and preserve diverse kinds of research output.  Currently, it contains the Richard Rorty born digital manuscripts. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was a pragmatist philosopher, critical theorist, and public intellectual who is commonly described as one of the most important thinkers of his era. He donated his papers to the UCI Libraries in 2006. The papers (in their physical form) are available in Special Collections and Archives' reading room, but we are using UCIspace @ the Libraries to preserve and provide access to over 1,000 files retrieved from Rorty's 3.5" floppy disks. Other projects for UCIspace @ the Libraries are in progress, and we plan to build the collections in the future by partnering with faculty to publish their research materials.

UC-based priorities are articulated on the Scholarly Communications at the University of California website.
 
The University of California has actively engaged in the discourse about Scholarly Communication and its collective work is captured by the summary of issues described by University of California, Office of Scholarly Communication. As members of the University of California, you are encouraged to follow these trends, and take appropriate action on the issues that affect you as a scholar, researcher, and student.

• University of California eScholarship Open Access, Scholarly Publishing Platform
• Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) ResearchNow Portal

• June 2010 - UC tries to negotiate with Nature Publishing Group about pricing to journal content.  A collection of exchanges of communication and correspondence between the University of California and Nature is compiled.
• February 2010 - The UCI Libraries' eScholarship repository publishes materials about work conducted under the auspices of the UCI Libraries, as well as work produced by UCI faculty that does not more easily fit in the repository of another of the campus' research centers, departments, or programs. View instructions for submitting research.
• UC Discounts on Article Publication Charges for Open Access Journals

Upcoming Events

• January 7, 2013 - Faculty Assessment of the State of Research Computing (FASRC) Town Hall Meeting, CalIT2 Auditorium; 11 AM - 2 PM.  
  • This is an opportunity for you hear from the Libraries on data management services, receive an update on FASRC feedback received thus far, and to provide additional feedback to the committee and project sponsors.

• November 18, 2011 - Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer. Langson Library, UC Irvine.  The Opening of the Fall Library Exhibition,  featuring a talk by Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chancellor Emeritus, UC Irvine. A special evening with F. Sherwood Rowland with remarks by UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake, M.D.  Presentation talk by Ralph J. Cicerone.
• October 24-30, 2011 - Open Access Week events around the world
• October 25th, 2011 - Evaluating Topic Models for Use in Digital Libraries - David Newman, PhD (Research Faculty, ICS) conducts research on how topic mapping (topic modeling + mapping) can be used in conjunction with Google Maps interfaces to improve the ways users browse huge text collections. Using two huge collections of text documents (PubMed abstracts and books from the Open Content Alliance) Newman investigated how to construct intuitive and meaningful layouts of documents to help users better find useful documents, and improve their overall browse experience.
• October 20, 2011 - Fall Teaching Colloquy, Clarifying Copyright - The rules for using other people's copyrighted material for instructional purposes, as well as those for other people using yours, seem to be changing daily. The Fall Teaching Colloquy, Clarifying Copyright, will examine how the copyright laws and recent cases involving other universities are impacting instruction and research. Facilitating this very interactive discussion will be Prof. Maria Pantelia (Classics), Director of the UCI's Thesaurus Linguae Graece, Assoc. University Librarian, Carol Hughes, and University Counsel Khym Penfil.

Past Events

• May 14, 2010 - The Humanities Research Institute hosted a program "Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: In Memory of Richard Rorty: A Celebration of the Richar Rorty's Archive" with papers and presentations about Rorty, creating the Archive and the first project of the Digital Scholarship Service.
• February 17, 2010 - The launch of UC Irvine Libraries Digital Scholarship Service helps UC Irvine faculty and research staff publish, share and preserve the digital products of their research.  As the processes and products of research increasingly take digital forms, this service seeks to place research findings or data in accessible, secure, sustainable environments so they may be easily shared over time.  UC Irvine Librarians will assist the UCI community in finding the most appropriate access and storage platforms to preserve their research and disseminate their materials broadly.  The service may help some researchers fulfill agency or grant requirements to post their research findings or data publicly.  The service may also support researchers who wish to preserve and provide access to unique digital materials with research value.  The ultimate goal of this service is to support the digital life cycle of UCI's scholarly resources, from creation through their delivery, management and long-term preservation.
• February 2010 - UCI Libraries launch UCIspace@theLibraries, an open access service for the UCI community to publish, manage, and preserve diverse kinds of research output.  Currently, it contains the Richard Rorty born digital manuscripts. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was a pragmatist philosopher, critical theorist, and public intellectual who is commonly described as one of the most important thinkers of his era. He donated his papers to the UCI Libraries in 2006. The papers (in their physical form) are available in Special Collections and Archives' reading room, but we are using UCIspace @ the Libraries to preserve and provide access to over 1,000 files retrieved from Rorty's 3.5" floppy disks. Other projects for UCIspace @ the Libraries are in progress, and we plan to build the collections in the future by partnering with faculty to publish their research materials
• The UCI Libraries' eScholarship repository publishes materials about work conducted under the auspices of the UCI Libraries, as well as work produced by UCI faculty that does not more easily fit in the repository of another of the campus' research centers, departments, or programs. View instructions for submitting research.
• October 19-23, 2009 - Open Access Week being celebrated around the world
• October 21, 2009 - UCI Libraries' Scholarly Communication & Management Program (SCAMP), in partnership with the Associated Graduate Students (AGS) and the Graduate Resource Center will host the program, "Open Access: The Status & Success with Different Disciplines" at 3:30-5:00pm in Langson Library 570; Open to Campus Community and Guests.  For additional information, please contact Julia Gelfand.
  Five speakers comment on their discipline and experience followed by discussion moderated by Lorelei Tanji, AUL for Collections
  • Mathematics:  Chuu-Lian Terng, Chairperson, Mathematics Dept, "Why Math Adopted OA from the Onset"
  • Chemistry: Scott Rychnovsky, Professor of Chemistry & Associate Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS publication), "Why Not More Chemistry via OA?"
  • Medicine:  Dr. Mark Langdorf, Chair & Medical Director of Emergency Medicine, & Editor, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, "Never Too Many, Multiple OA Journals in Emergency Medicine"
  • Social Sciences/Anthropology:  Douglas White, Professor of Anthropology, "How Open Access Has Matured: Reflections and Future Directions"
  • Humanities:  Barbara Cohen, Former Director, UCI HumaniTech and Advisory Board Member of Open Humanities Press, "Open Humanities Press: A Collective in the Humanities"
  • Click here for audio and powerpoint presentations.
• October 21, 2009 - at 12:00, at the Grunigen Medical Library (GML), Dr. Shahram Lotfipour, Professor of Emergency Medicine, will speak about "OA Journals in Medicine: Case of Western Journal of Emergency Medicine"
  
  • Click here for audio transcript of program.
• October 21, 2009 - Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group of the California Digital Library will also visit the Campus and join these events
• October 19, 2009 - New eScholarship Launch at the University of California - Previously known as UC's eScholarship Repository, the new eScholarship offers a robust scholarly publishing platform that enables departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship. "Our relaunch of eScholarship reflects the enormous value we see in recasting the institutional repository as an open access publisher," says Catherine Mitchell, Director of the Publishing Group at the California Digital Library. "There is significant need across the University of California campuses for a sustainable infrastructure to support the publication and dissemination of research. In our efforts to respond to this need, we have watched our institutional repository evolve into a dynamic platform for the original publication of scholarly work."  A short video is available at http://animoto.com/play/CMUAhzp2fwpvnwSwFTdCOg.
• February 2009 - University of California signs UC/Springer Open Choice Journals Agreement
• January 2009 - UC acquires Springer eBooks 
• March 2008 - UCI offers support and direction for how to follow NIH Mandate, 2008+ and issues New Library Guide on the NIH Public Access Policy
• January 2008 - Launch of NIH Public Access Policy web site

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.  Open Access movement is based on the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.  For more information about Open Access Week 2009, please visit http://www.openaccessweek.org/about-the-week/

• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on “Nature of Collaboration in Scholarship: Disciplinary Perspectives and Directions for Library Engagement,” given by Professor Gary Olson, Donald Bren Chair of Information & Computer Science and Distinguished Professor of Informatics. May 26, 2009.
• ”Open Access in the Humanities,” A panel discussion co-hosted by the UCI Libraries and Humanitech on the emergence and evolution of open access in the Humanities. February 5, 2009.
• Campus Celebration of Open Access Day, October 23, 2008.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on PLoS (Public Library of Science) and the new Community Journals, given by Donna Okubo, Institutional Relations Manager at PLoS. April 7, 2005.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on web interface and usability given by Professor Alfred Kobsa of the UCI School of Information & Computer Science. December 15, 2004.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation of post-conference reports. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Colby Riggs; Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) - Julia Gelfand & Lorelei Tanji; The Special Libraries Association (SLA)- Harold Gee & John Sisson; The American Library Association (ALA) - Julia Gelfand; The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - Julia Gelfand. July 21, 2004.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on "User Searching/Reader Behavior; A Study of the Information Needs of Anthropologists, etc.," given by Professor Bonnie Nardi of the Informatics Department, UC Irvine. June 1, 2004.
• "Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of Big Media". A seminar co-sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center, HumaniTech, and the UCI Libraries. May 19-20, 2004.
• Author's Rights Workshop - Two Pilot Workshops with the College of Medicine Senate. Carol Ann Hughes (UCI), Lorelei Tanji (UCI), and Sharon Farb (UCLA). May 17, 2004.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on "Digital Library Activity in Europe," given by Valentina Comb, University of Bologna. January 14, 2004.
• Advancing New Choices for Publishing: Changing Scenarios in Promotion & Tenure Reviews. A public panel discussion presented by SCAMP. December 4, 2004.
• A SCAMP Brown Bag presentation on "Scholarly Communications in the Nordic Countries," given by Catta Torhell, Senior Librarian, Lund University, Library for Social and Behavioural Sciences. November 24, 2003.
• "Basics of Taxonomics and Applications to Library Web Sites" - An informational address given by Amy J. Warner, Ph.D. October 23, 2003.
• An informational report on a Mellon-Funded R&D project at the UCSD Libraries. Brad Westbrook, Trish Rose, and Linda Barnhart from UCSD Libraries Union Catalog of of Art Images (UCAI). September 12, 2003.
• Launch of SCAMP - A forum presented on April 24, 2003, entitled "Scholarly Communication - The Next Wave."

Related Articles

• Message from the University Librarian: Open Access for Scholarly Communication by Gerald J. Munoff, University Librarian, UC Irvine, UC Irvine Libraries Update, Spring 2005, Vol. 23, Number 3.
• Message from the University Librarian: The Scholarly Communications Challenge by Gerald J. Munoff, University Librarian, UC Irvine, UC Irvine Libraries Update, Winter, 2003, Vol. 21, Number 2. (pdf)
• An article referred to by Executive Vice Chancellor Gottfredson in his address at the SCAMP launch: Free Labor for Costly Journals? , by Theodore C. Bergstrom, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. March 20, 2001. (pdf)

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OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
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UCI Joint Resolution on Scholarly Communication and Faculty Copyrights

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