See < http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ >.

Adoption of the eScholarship Repository is accelerating.  It took two years to log the first half-million downloads in the repository, but only a single year to reach the one million mark.  Now, in less than nine months, use of the repository has doubled again, bringing the complete article and paper downloads beyond 2,000,000.  The repository, which is used by UC scholars and researchers in more than 200 academic departments systemwide, should reach another significant milestone before year’s end — 10,000 unique paper and articles submissions.

Several new services have enhanced the eScholarship Repository’s appeal.  The Postprints service, which was launched in February of this year, increased submissions by 20% and seems to have fed rising interest in journals and other peer-reviewed series–including a new monographic series by UC Press http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/.  Also, beginning this month the Postprints service supports submission of articles to the repository by author-assigned proxies.  Finally, academic units and departments can retrospectively and virtually collect postprints into their branded collections without disturbing the unique Postprints collection.  For more information see: http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html

On Wednesday, the eScholarship program announced the launch of its new eScholarship Repository postprints service, which provides scholars with another option for regaining control of their scholarship and maximizing its availability and influence.  See the press release at http://www.cdlib.org/news/press_releases/postprints_final_20050223.doc.

The postprints feature allows UC faculty who have retained the appropriate copyrights or who obtain permission from their publishers to easily deposit previously published articles into a publicly accessible online repository.

The postprints are fully searchable, available free of charge, and are persistently maintained in a centrally managed database.  UC faculty interested in joining the eScholarship Repository and depositing papers via the new postprints service can find more information on the eScholarship Repository web site at http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html.

Using the seminar series service, faculty can give their seminars, lecture series, and colloquia a lasting and highly visible presence on the Internet.  The seminar series service will host the full-text versions of papers as well as speaker and topic lists.

Seminar materials will be maintained persistently as part of the eScholarship Repository, which houses a collection of faculty working papers, preprints, monographs, peer reviewed journals, and other publications from more than 160 UC departments and organized research units. The eScholarship Repository receives as many as 15,000 full-text downloads per week.

The CDL has been developing a digital object repository to support the collections it manages, which currently contain more than 150,000 images, texts, and other materials encoded in the Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) format.  The Interface Customization Tools allow institutions to access their digital object collections in the CDL METS Repository, while using their own branding and customized interfaces.

Three IMLS and LSTA-funded digitization projects have already successfully used these tools:

• Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC): http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/
• UC Berkeley Bancroft Library California Heritage: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/
• Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA): http://jarda.cdlib.org/

What are the Interface Customization Tools?

Using the documentation, templates, and training the CDL provides in the form of a tool kit, institutions will be able to provide web access to their content in the way they choose.

Who can use the tools?

At present, any contributor to the CDL METS Repository or any UC library may customize the presentation of the repository for non-commercial use.  Open Archives Initiative (OAI) service providers can harvest items and provide services in their own environment.  All metadata is compliant with OAI-PMH 2.0.

Can the interface of all types of collections be customized?

Image collections and metadata-only searches are currently available.  The ability to fully customize the presentation of TEI-encoded texts, EAD-encoded finding aids, and DDI-encoded data sets will be added in early 2005.

What skills are required to do this?

General web design and development skills (knowledge of HTML and web forms) and XSLT programming stills are needed to use the tool kit.

For more information, see: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/repository/customize/

The eScholarship Repository’s new peer-review capability provides UC faculty with several benefits.  By publishing a journal or peer-reviewed series in the eScholarship Repository, faculty can automate and speed up the review and publication process, and publish associated content alongside articles.  In addition, the Repository provides faculty with an alternative to publishing their research in for-profit journals.

The first peer-reviewed journal in the eScholarship Repository is San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, published by the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis.  It joins other peer-reviewed materials in the eScholarship Repository, including papers and edited volumes from the UC International and Area Studies Digital Collection.

The CDL expects the number of peer-reviewed papers and journals to grow substantially in coming months, with the addition of scientific monographs and other content from the University of California Press, as well as new journals sponsored by departments at several UC campuses, including InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies.  Additionally, Comitatus, a 34-year-old journal sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, will be migrating to the eScholarship Repository this spring.

For information about how UC departments, centers, and research units can join the eScholarship Repository, go to: http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/join.html

See the press release announcement at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/eScholarship_peer_review_journals_3-9-04.pdf

The first eScholarship Repository peer-reviewed journal, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (SFEWS) (<http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews> ), is now available. Repository journals are free and available to any Internet user.

SFEWS is published by the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Science Consortium.  It features peer-reviewed research on the science and ecology of the San Francisco Bay, Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and upstream watersheds.  The first issue focuses on San Francisco Estuary tidal wetlands restoration.

The eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ ) offers UC departments, centers, and research units direct control over creation and dissemination of the full range of scholarly output, from pre-publication materials through journals and peer-reviewed series.  The faculty unit is responsible for the review, selection, and deposit of content, including editorial support for journals.  The CDL is providing the repository infrastructure in response to expressed interest in experimentation with new forms of scholarly communication.

Complete information on eScholarship Repository journals and peer-reviewed series is available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html .

b. Counting California - New Content

The Counting California project team is pleased to announce the release of the following new content on Counting California (countingcalifornia.cdlib.org):

1. Census 2000 Summary File 4

(http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/title/sf42000.html) Census of Population and Housing, Census 2000, Summary File 4 from the U.S. Census Bureau is now available.  The release of Census 2000, Summary File 4 is the fourth dataset added to Counting California from the Census Bureau’s Census 2000 series. Summary File 4 provides population and housing data on such diverse topics as marital status; grandparents as caregivers; language and ability to speak English; ancestry; place of birth; citizenship status, and year of entry; migration; place of work; journey to work (commuting); school enrollment and educational attainment; vehicles available; value of home; monthly rent; shelter costs; and more.

2. Markup Data Dictionary (mudd) Available

(http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/mudd.service/mudd.html) XML markup of the U.S. Census data dictionary for Census 2000 Summary File 4 and Census 2000 Summary File 3 are now available on Counting California.  There are two XML markups, mudd (markup data dictionary) and momudd (more than mudd XML) for viewing and downloading.  In addition, the pdf file of the U.S. Census data dictionary for these studies are available.

We anticipate that more Counting California titles will soon be available to the public.

The titles, which are served in XML, are fully searchable.  All titles are listed in Melvyl within two weeks of release.  A group of approximately 100 books is made available every 6 weeks.  A complete schedule of releases can be found at http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/schedule.html; lists of forthcoming UC Press eScholarship Editions books are at http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/upcoming.html.  Linking assistance (http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/linking.html) includes a MARC download of all available public titles for inclusion in the OPACs of non-UC institutions.

The UC Press eScholarship Editions are the result of a partnership between University of California Press and the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program ( http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ ).

Nearly 100 UC institutes, departments, research units, and centers from 9 UC campuses have joined the repository.  The eScholarship Repository contains 1,200 papers. Users have logged 60,000 full-text downloads of repository scholarship.  Usage statistics show that over 95 percent of repository users are coming from outside UC, including 38 countries.  This demonstrates the increased visibility the repository offers UC faculty.

A wide range of subjects can be found in the repository, including social science, business, education, humanities, and the sciences.  The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley, University of California Energy Institute (a Multi-Campus Research Unit), Economics Department at Santa Barbara, Center for Conservation Biology at Riverside, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at San Diego are just a few of the UC academic departments and research units with repository sites.

The eScholarship Repository also supports peer-reviewed series, which offer scholars an alternative to for-profit journals.  The University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) Digital Collection <http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/> has been available since summer 2002.  Further information on starting a repository peer-reviewed series can be found at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/peer_review.html>.

The complete March 12, 2003 press release on the eScholarship Repository can be found at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/milestones.pdf>.  Additional information on the repository is available at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html> or through your campus eScholarship liaison <http://escholarship.cdlib.org/liaisons.html>.