Monthly Archives: February 2018

CDL Visit to UC San Diego Library – Everything Wanted to Know about eScholarship

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Join discussions and opportunities to make eScholarship https://escholarship.org/  work for you, your department, your program. The California Digital Library’s https://www.cdlib.org/ Publications & Engagement Manager, Monica Westin and eScholarship Operations Coordinator, Justin Gondor will be on hand to present, answer questions, and field requests..

Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM. – Biomed Library Bldg. Events Room

  • 12:00 – 1:30 Part one: learn how eScholarship can work for you, your department/program
    • UCSD Health Nursing as an example (site hierarchy, CMS editing, issues that have arisen), Help center (Justin & Monica), Publishing (Monica)
    • Google analytics
    • Altmetrics
    • Other features on the way – high level (Justin)
    • OA policy/Elements (Justin)
  • 1:30 – 2:30 Deep dive into eScholarship for admins and super users
    • ORCID (Lisa Schiff – Zooming in)
    • Citations and other features on the way – detailed (Justin)
    • Submission form navigation (Monica & Justin)
  • Office hours 3:00 – 4:00pm
    • Audience – by appt

RSVP for the section you’d like to attend (UC San Diego attendees only)

Questions? scholcomm [at] ucsd [dot] edu

PhD candidate takes advantage of UC San Diego publishing partnerships

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The UC San Diego Library is engaged in another recent partnership to leverage publishing opportunities for our campus that support sustainable Open Access publishing. We are seeing engagement as we get notices from the publisher about our authors recent OA publications.

Image credit: The Great Flood of 1927 by Gil Cohen. National Guard, U.S. Govt. work

Ned Randolph published “River Activism, “Levees-Only” and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927” DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i1.1179 in Media and Communication published by Cogitatio Press. Not only does he retain copyright and licenses his work with Creative Commons license, but he has seen 240 views and 29 downloads since publishing in open access on February 9, 2018! That’s 29 downloads in three days!!

Ned Randolph is a Communication Studies PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego.

UC San Diego 2nd highest usage of any institution in North America and 7th highest usage worldwide!

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As part of UC San Diego Library’s ongoing support for Open Access, the library pledges funds to “unlatch” books in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched. We are more than pleased to learn that our support has made some impact!

From @KUnlatched Publicity & Communications:

Knowledge Unlatched presents its Open Access Heroes 2018 Berlin, 12th February 2018. Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has released its OpenAccess Heroes for 2017. The “KU Heroes” for 2017, including those institutions worldwide where the highest usage of KU titles in 2017 was recorded. UC San Diego saw the second highest usage of any institution in North America and the seventh highest usage worldwide (based on downloads from the OAPEN and JSTOR platforms)!KU_Heroes_2018

Check back with KU as they will be announcing the title lists for KU Select 2018 at the end of April, including books and journals not only in HSS but also in STEM for the first time. They’ll also be launching new partnerships with Luminos (University of California Press), OpenEdition (French language content), HAU Books (Anthropology) and Open Commons of Phenomenology (Philosophy).