The University of California Press (UC Press) and the California Digital Library have announced the official launch of a collaborative publishing venture, UC Publishing Services (UCPubS). UCPubS offers a suite of open access digital and print publication services to University of California centers, institutes, and departments that produce scholarly books. By co-ordinating the publishing efforts of UC Press, the California Digital Library’s eScholarship programme and publishing partners throughout the UC system, UCPubS seeks to provide a sustainable publishing model that extends the University’s capacity to disseminate its scholarship to the world.
Building on current publishing activities, UCPubS enables organisations such as the Townsend Center at UC Berkeley and the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA to focus on scholarship rather than on distribution, sales and web platform development.
With this shared resource model, campus publishing partners will be responsible for selection of content, peer review, editing, design, and composition. eScholarship provides open-access digital publishing, peer review and manuscript management tools, and preservation. University of California Press handles printing (using print-on-demand technology), sales and distribution of print publications, and online marketing for both print and digital publications.
UC Press and the CDL have embarked on this collaborative publishing venture in response to compelling research revealing the vibrant publishing activity across the UC campuses and the need for system wide services to support such activity. Several partners are already using UCPubS services. These include the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP); The Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley; Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA); and Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, among others.
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