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Friday, March 12, 2004
eScholars of the World, Unite! The University of California Revolutionizes Publishing Paradigm - Marla Misek, eContent
.... With 100-plus libraries on 10 campuses housing more than 31 million items, the University of California reportedly operates the world's largest research collection. As digital technologies evolved and campus budgets constricted in the 1990s, UC librarians, researchers, and administrators began acknowledging three challenges that could not be ignored: the economics of publishing were changing rapidly; scholarly communication needed to innovate; and sustaining comprehensive collections was becoming increasingly harder to do. With these challenges in mind, UC representatives began conceptualizing a plan "to harness the system's resources at a time when the budget was very bad and the possibilities of technology seemed endless," explains Catherine Candee, director of scholarly communication initiatives for UC's California Digital Library. "The whole notion from the start was, ‘Let's improve the capacity of the library to support the university's mission, which is research and teaching.'"
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