Please join us, Wednesday, February 17, when Catherine Mitchell (CDL) and Laura Cerutti (UC Press) will log on to review the progress of the UCPubS program, including the motivations behind their library-press collaboration, the specific services UCPubS provides, their outreach efforts across the campuses, the challenges they’ve encountered so far, and how other presses and libraries can build on this experience.
Library-press partnerships in action: The new University of California Publishing Services
A SPARC Webcast
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
1:00 – 2:00PM EST
Registration is free, but required. RSVP by February 15 at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml.
In December of last year, the University of California Press and the California Digital Library (CDL) announced University of California Publishing Services (UCPubS), a joint program intended to respond to the publishing needs within UC and “leverage the power of the University of California’s publishing and scholarly communications network” (http://copyedit.ucpress.edu/pubservices).
UCPubS brings the complementary services of the press and the library together to offer a rich suite of open-access digital and print publishing tools to the UC system centers, institutes, and departments that produce scholarly books. Services including the library’s eScholarship digital publishing platform and the press’s marketing and fulfillment expertise – for example – have been united in an effort to ensure sustainable scholarly publishing throughout the university.
The program has been very well received. Despite being launched just two months ago, UCPubS is already providing services to a variety of groups and projects across the UC system, building a growing number of publisher partners, and anticipates a strong list of books to come online in 2010.
Please join us, Wednesday, February 17, when Catherine Mitchell (CDL) and Laura Cerutti (UC Press) will log on to review the progress of this program, including the motivations behind their library-press collaboration, the specific services UCPubS provides, their outreach efforts across the campuses, the challenges they’ve encountered so far, and how other presses and libraries can build on this experience.
Library-press partnerships in action: The new University of California Publishing Services
A SPARC Webcast
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
1:00 – 2:00PM EST
Registration is free, but required. RSVP by February 15 at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml.
This Webcast is held in conjunction with the SPARC Campus-based Publishing initiative, a program and Web center designed by a panel of advisors from the library and university press communities to support successful publishing partnerships.
For more information on the SPARC program, visit http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/index.shtml.
More information about UCPubS is online at http://copyedit.ucpress.edu/pubservices.