Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Welcome Rachel Lee, P&SC’s New Publications Manager
The Publishing & Special Collections Group welcomes Rachel Lee as the new Publications Manager for eScholarship! Leveraging her deep expertise in journal publishing, Rachel will develop new programs and materials to support the success of the 80+ open access journals […]
Next Gen Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M Arcadia grant to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
Educopia Institute and California Digital Library are pleased to announce an award in the amount of $2,200,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Next Generation Library Publishing” project. Through this project, Educopia and […]
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections Group Releases 2019/2020 Service Roadmaps
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections (P&SC) Group is excited to announce that our 2019/2020 service roadmaps are now publicly available: Calisphere Collection Management Systems eScholarship Online Archive of California Open Access Policy Implementation As was the case last year, these […]
CDL joins 11 partner libraries, the Library Publishing Coalition and Educopia on grant to study library publishing workflows
The California Digital Library, along with 11 partner libraries (Atlanta University Center, Claremont Colleges, Columbia University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Pacific University, University of Alberta, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Redlands, Virginia Tech, and Wayne State University) is […]
Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network: planning initiative update and release of new report
We are pleased to share the availability of a new report, “Finding Aid Aggregation at a Crossroads” (“Crossroads”): https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sp13112 This report is a primary deliverable of the “Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network” project, a one-year (October 2018 – […]
Welcome to Mahjabeen Yucekul, P&SC’s new Senior Software Engineer
We are excited to have Mahjabeen Yucekul join the Publishing & Special Collections group as our new Senior Software Engineer, starting August 1, 2019. Mahjabeen will be responsible for the technical architecture, operations, and continued evolution of the publication management […]
UC Libraries Open UC Publications for Worldwide Access in HathiTrust
Librarians at UC Merced and UC San Diego recently completed projects to open University of California publications in the HathiTrust Digital Library and make them available for worldwide access. To accomplish this, they used HathiTrust’s Rights Holder Creative Commons Declaration […]
Job Alert: Publications Manager, eScholarship
The Publishing & Special Collections Group at the California Digital Library is seeking candidates for our Publications Manager position. If you have publishing experience and are looking for an exciting opportunity to help work toward open and sustainable scholarly communication […]
CDL Job Opening: Senior Software Developer
As a senior level applications programmer in the Publishing & Special Collections group at the California Digital Library, this position is responsible for the technical architecture, operations, and continued evolution of a publication management system in support of the University […]
Exploring innovations in history: architecture, television, travel — new collections made available through LSTA!
New collection highlights Calisphere continues to grow, not only in size but also in breadth with new collections providing insight into innovations in architecture, television, and travel. UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum is a longstanding […]