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The University of California Libraries and the California Digital Library
(CDL) are pleased to announce an electronic reprint service for UC faculty
and researchers. Building on UC’s popular eScholarship
Repository,
hosted by the California Digital Library, the “Postprints” Service
will provide a central online location for UC faculty to showcase and provide
open access to previously published journal articles.
Through the copyright
policies of a number of publishers, authors can increase the use and
impact of their own scholarly output, and establish long-term
care of the work’s digital version, by depositing articles into institutional
repositories like eScholarship’s new Postprints Service.
The
Postprints Service is open to UC authors of previously published peer-reviewed
articles, regardless of whether their research unit or department is currently
a member of the
eScholarship Repository. Many UC academic units have already used the eScholarship
Repository
to make available a quickly growing body of working papers, technical reports,
and seminar series.
The Postprints Service has been pilot-tested by faculty
and has a straightforward web interface. To kickstart the service and assist
authors who may want to
deposit their work, eScholarship staff have collected over 25,000 citations
from articles with at least one UC author from 2004 and have prepared a system
that uses that citation information to automatically complete fields during
the paper upload process.
During the launch of the service these UC authors
will receive emails with the relevant citations and will be encouraged to
log into the eScholarship
Repository system to complete the process by depositing their papers.
Advice about whether an article is eligible for deposit is provided with the
service and derives from the existing publication agreement or the default policy
of the publisher.
Postprints
join the other materials in the eScholarship Repository but can be browsed
and searched either as a subset or within the entire collection.
Postprints from authors affiliated with the nearly 200 participating research
units and departments will also be available through the unit’s section
of the full Repository. At UCI, 7 research units and 2 departments are
participating and all are welcome to join.
More information about the crisis in scholarly communication
and why a service like eScholarship’s Postprints Service is timely and
vital can be found on the UC’s
Reshaping Scholarly Communication website.
Questions and comments about the eScholarship Repository should
be directed to Lorelei
Tanji, Assistant University Librarian
for Collections
(949) 824-5216.
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