[LIS-Forum] CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY JOINS PKP AS MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PARTNER

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

The University of California system supports open access to the hilt. Indian universities can follow in their footsteps. Our Vice Chancellors and Directors of higher institutes of learning should examine how CDL has achieved so much in such a short time and emulate the CDL experience in India.

Arun


[Forwarding from the California Digital 
Library, via the 
JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter Suber.]




As the scholarly 
publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access 
mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads 
between publishers and faculty -- and eagerly working to provide new solutions 
to entrenched problems.  The California Digital Library’s (CDL) latest 
foray into this space, on behalf of the University of California system, focuses 
on supporting open source publishing infrastructure through a major development 
partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
 
As a result of this 
agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its 
open source software suite — Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems 
(OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for 
release in the coming year.
 
Chuck Eckman, Dean of 
Library Services at Simon Fraser University stated: "The California Digital 
Library is widely recognized for its record of innovation and leadership in the 
domain of scholarly publishing and the SFU Library is thrilled at the prospects 
this new collaborative venture creates for advancing our shared scholarly 
communication goals."  Laine Farley, Executive Director of CDL, noted, “Not 
only are we extremely pleased with the flexibility afforded by OJS, we are also 
delighted to join this growing international community and contribute to the 
future growth of this publishing solution.” 
 
The California 
Digital Library, in partnership with the University of California campus 
libraries, supports and encourages open access publishing initiatives within the 
UC system through its eScholarship publishing and institutional repository 
platform. eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing 
services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing 
programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California 
to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of 
their scholarship.  Home to 45 
peer-reviewed journals (http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=aa), eScholarship has 
recently transitioned to OJS as its journal management and submission system and 
has integrated OJS with its pre/post-print, books and working papers repository, 
which contains more than 45,000 UC-affiliated publications.  
 
John Willinsky, 
Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, Library Scholar in 
Residence and Professor (Limited Term) in Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser 
University, and founding Director of PKP stated: “Given the leadership, 
innovation, and engagement shown by CDL in moving scholarly communication into a 
digital era marked by a spirit of greater openness and sharing aimed at the 
advancement of learning, this partnership provides a wonderful opportunity for 
PKP to further explore ways that faculty and librarians can work together to 
make more of what we do more of a public good.”
 
The California 
Digital Library provides digital library development and support for the 
University of California libraries and the communities they serve.  The CDL 
Publishing Group delivers open access digital publication services to the 
University of California academic community, supports widespread distribution of 
UC research materials, and fosters new models of scholarly publishing through 
the development and application of advanced technologies. (For further 
information contact Catherine Mitchell, director of CDL Publishing at catherine.mitchell at ucop.edu510.587.6132.)
PKP 
is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research.  
With more than 11,500 installations of Open Journal Systems (OJS); Open 
Conference Systems (OCS); and Open Harvester Systems (OHS) around the world, the 
Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has proven that open source software can be a 
game changer in scholarly publishing.
In 
September 2011, PKP officially launched a major sustainability campaign to 
ensure the continued development and enhancement of its open source software 
suite and to provide better support for the growing PKP user community.  To 
find out more about this initiative and how your site can become a PKP sponsor 
visit the PKP Web site at http://pkp.sfu.ca
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