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By Jacqueline Wilson, Senior Associate, Collections

CDL Collections and eScholarship in partnership with the UC Scholarly Communication Officers (SCOs) are piloting a ground-breaking open access publishing arrangement with Springer on behalf of UC faculty.  The two year experiment has already begun.  CDL sent out a press release about the pilot program on January 21, 2009.  The publicity was distributed to a variety of library information sources as well as the Chronicle of Higher Education and other standard UCOP media outlets.  Springer will also send the release to selected European contacts.  Information has been also posted on the CDL web site and on the Reshaping Scholarly Communication web site.

Laine Farley, CDL Executive Director, and Ivy Anderson, CDL Director, Collection Development and Management, have requested that the University Librarians communicate with appropriate faculty on their campuses to notify them of this pilot.  It will be important to the success of the pilot that as many UC faculty as possible know about this open access opportunity.  According to Springer, approximately 1,500 articles with at least one UC author are published annually in Springer journals. CDL will also be working with the SCOs on additional campus outreach as well as on an evaluation plan.

An article is eligible for Springer’s open access publishing option (called Springer Open Choice) if even one of the authors of an article is from UC. To invoke the Open Choice option, the corresponding or submitting author simply selects a UC campus affiliation from a drop-down box that appears on the acceptance screens that he or she completes once the article has been accepted for publication.  Therefore, the submitting author, if not from UC, must know about the program and indicate that one of their co-authors possesses a UC affiliation. This requires that the UC authors be familiar with the pilot and remember to inform their co-authors about the program.  A message on the acceptance screen will indicate that the Open Choice option is being made available to them at no charge through an arrangement with the University of California Libraries.

CDL will clarify some remaining issues about placing the final published Springer OA articles in the eScholarship Repository and we expect to begin this part of the pilot soon.

Please address questions to Jacqueline Wilson (jacqueline.wilson@ucop.edu), Senior Associate for Collections, California Digital Library.

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses have already had access to these titles, or a portion of them, through previous local campus subscriptions):

Blackwell Compass (All campuses; on the Wiley/InterScience platform)
History Compass:  v.1 (2003)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1478-0542
Language and Linguistics Compass:   v.1 (2007)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1749-818X
Literature Compass:  v.1 (2004)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1741-4113
Philosophy Compass:   v.1 (2006)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1747-9991

Each compass journal publishes 100-150 peer reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline.  Articles are typically produced in 8-10 weeks from receipt of final peer-reviewed version.  Articles are published as soon as they are produced.

AGU’s Digital Library and backfile (All campuses; on the AGU platform)
http://uclibs.org/PID/126496

The library now includes all AGU journals from volume 1, issue 1 through material published in 2002 and almost all books older than 5 years.  Every year, the library will expand to include another full year; e.g., in 2009, content from 2003 will be added to the library.  As of the library’s launch in January 2008, all journals published by AGU are available, except for the International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy.  Books, lectures/interviews and the newspaper, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, will be added as completed. Journals include:

By Catherine Mitchell, Director of eScholarship Publishing Program

It is with delight that I announce the arrival of Elise Proulx, eScholarship’s new Outreach and Marketing Coordinator.  Elise comes to us with a remarkable convergence of extremely relevant and promising professional experiences.  Most recently, as a literary agent at Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell, she worked with authors to establish and negotiate book contracts with publishers.  Simultaneously, as the executive director of LitQuake, she developed, produced and promoted an annual, week-long San Francisco literary festival involving 450+ authors and 60+ venues.  Elise has worked in media for the past 15 years, including time as an associate editor at the venerable Berkeley journal The Threepenny Review and as a reporter for the Napa Valley Register.  And, to top it all off, she is currently working toward an M.L.I.S. at San Jose State University.  Elise lives in Bernal Heights (SF) with her husband Eric and 18-month-old son, Errol.

In her new role, Elise will serve as the official spokesperson for the eScholarship suite of services.  As such, she will be responsible for working with UC faculty, researchers, academic department staff and librarians to promote the use of eScholarship publishing services throughout the UC system.  She will also lead our market research and needs assessment efforts to enhance existing publishing services and to develop new eScholarship projects that respond to the publishing needs of UC’s academic community.

We count ourselves enormously lucky to have Elise joining our team in such a crucial role at such a crucial time.  Please join me in welcoming her to the CDL!

By Emily Stambaugh, CDL Shared Print Manager

CDL Shared Print has issued a call for proposals for prospective Shared Print monograph collections in Area Studies.  CDC and CDL Shared Print collaborated to design a new, distributed framework for cooperative monograph collecting which will support the continued development of the UC Libraries’ collective collections of international materials.  The call has been issued to the Chairs of Bibliographer groups, particularly of Area Studies groups, with an anticipated deadline of January 30th and an open invitation for proposals throughout the year. The distributed framework envisions a nimble structure for campuses and extramural partners to make commitments to collect monographs in certain areas, supported by a formal Memorandum of Understanding between participating libraries and a common infrastructure to support cross-campus visibility of monograph orders.

As bibliographers prepare their proposals, CDL Shared Print has also appointed a temporary task force to guide the implementation of the Shared Print monograph proposals across the various library services and to investigate infrastructure requirements.  The CDL Shared Print Steering Task Force is comprised of leadership level experts from UC Libraries in collection development, technical services, acquisitions, cataloging, resource sharing, regional library facilities management and preservation.  A key component of distributed Shared Print collecting will be the development of policies and common standards of practice for shared materials across the functional areas of collection management and library services.  The task force will study and develop these policies and standards to support this new model of collection development.

For more information about CDC and CDL Shared Print’s framework development:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/documents/TaskForce_finalreport_103008.doc

The Memorandum of Understanding:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/documents/MOUareastudies.doc

The Shared Print Steering Task Force:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/spstf/index.html

Proposal ToolKit (for bibliographers):
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/prospective_spm_toolkit.html

By Adam Brin, Programmer Analyst for Bibliographic Services

It’s now easier to link directly to an article using UCeLinks.

CDL has recently evaluated a series of enhancements to UC-eLinks centering around the user experience in cases where at least one provider with full text can be identified. Previous assessment recognized that users often become lost or confused when the full-text links on the UC-eLinks menu failed to link directly to the full-text item. To address this problem, CDL staff have made a series of changes relating to how the UC-eLinks menu operates.

When full text is available, the UC-eLinks window will be replaced with a smaller version of the menu located in a banner at the top of the screen. See below.

This banner’s purpose is twofold:

• To provide a citation for the item the user is seeking. (This is especially useful when UC-eLinks does not link the user directly to an article and it is necessary to navigate to the desired item.)
• To provide a link back to the full UC-eLinks menu, if needed.

When working on these changes, CDL staff reassessed additional aspects of the UC-eLinks menu:

• Certain critical parts of the citation have been bolded (e.g., the year, journal, volume, issue, and page).
• Some less useful information for the user in this context has been hidden, such as the ISBN/ISSN and author. This was done to simplify the screen.

In November, CDL rolled out testing to a number of groups including LINK-L subscribers, CDL Users Council, and Heads of Public Service (HOPS). The feedback identified the following trends:

• Overall, positive feedback towards the new framed menu.
• Linking problems where additional CDL configuration could move users from a journal homepage to the full text of an item.
• Specific targets not working properly with the new UC-eLinks framed menu.
• A perception that the new framed menu is slower than the standard UC-eLinks menu.
• Some confusion about when to expect the new framed menu and when to expect the full UC-eLinks menu.

CDL has been working to address these issues as they’ve been reported. For example, a number of cases where the interaction between the framed menu and the full-text site needed improvement have been corrected, and several of the targets were returned to improve their linking. Additionally, we’re working to implement a “loading in progress” indicator which will help address perceived performance issues.

Finally, we’ve identified two cases where we need to work with our vendors to further improve the user experience. One case occurs when the vendor does not allow their site to be framed, the other where the vendor site cannot place a cookie because of a user’s browser setting. In both cases, we have configured the menu to prevent the user from experiencing an error but are hoping to work with the vendors to further improve the user experience.

• In some cases, you’ll get the UC-eLinks window the first time you click on the UC-eLinks button to visit a publisher’s website. Thereafter, you’ll bypass the UC-eLinks window and go directly to articles at that website as long as your Web browser is open.

In the coming weeks, CDL will be rolling out one more iteration of the new framed menu which includes the loading indicator. We expect to release this on January 6, 2009. A new UC-eLinks Guide [HTML] is available on the Inside CDL Instructional Materials web page.

Special thanks to all the campuses testers for their comments and feedback; your efforts have helped to enhance the UC-eLinks service for all UC.