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+title: 'New Texts'
+date: '2007-06-05T14:14:52-04:00'
+permalink: /new-texts/
+tags:
+    - conferences
+    - mediacommons
+    - publishing
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+
+Session 2: New “Texts”
+
+Lynne Withey, director, UC Press; Catherine Candee, director of strategic publishing initiatives, California Digital Library  
+“New Texts, New Tasks: A Case Study from the University of California”
+
+6-8 year collaboration; three kinds of projects (backlist titles online in XML — not being kept up; specialized monographs put online through eScholarship repository via PDFs; critical/documentary editions such as the Mark Twain project)
+
+have reached limits of these three projects — replicating old forms
+
+launched new project: systemwide committee on scholarly communication units with view toward offering services, operating more efficiently
+
+findings based on: reflection, experience, use data, faculty survey, campus visits — determining what role of university publishing should be in 21st century
+
+reflections:  
+— economics of scholarly publishing are still troublesome for nonprofit producers and consumers  
+— new technologies offer possibilities for innovative and more cost-effective publishing  
+— pressures and opportunities create new challenges for UC services in support of research and teaching  
+— experiments have extended as far as existing organizational structures (UC Press and CDL) and budgets will allow
+
+article: Diane Harley, et al, [“The Influence of Academic Values on Scholarly Publication and Communication Practices”](http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0010.204)
+
+principles for university involvement in publishing services:  
+— the university must provide a research infrastructure that ensures productivity and stimulates innovation  
+— publishing is more than the production of an archival record; it is an integral part of the research infrastructure (must be provided by uni!)  
+— publishing must embrace a suite of production activities, some of which will be revenue generating  
+— publishing must enable faculty to create and distribute works via the most appropriate method  
+— publishing must enable the discovery, use, \*and re-use\* of content in support of research, teaching, and learning (publishing not as end point, but as marker along way of ongoing projects)
+
+faculty survey:  
+— faculty in arts and humanities have the deepest concerns about publishing matters; those in the natural sciences are more content with the current system  
+— the tenure and promotion process inhibits faculty actions that might better address the scholarly communication crisis (MUST address peer review!)  
+— faculty want better university support for publishing books, journal articles, monographs, and, to a lesser extent, conferences papers and dissertations
+
+findings from task force:  
+— surprising amount of formal publishing activity on campuses, in research centers and departments  
+— difficult to catalog and classify the existing publishing activities across UC campuses  
+— interdisciplinary work is burgeoning  
+— many UC faculty are desperate for support for creating, validating, publishing their digital scholarly research output
+
+more findings… few surprises:  
+— faculty, especially in humanities, make a distinction between in -process communication and formal ‘archival’ publication  
+— prestige and visibility are crucial to faculty participation in new publishing initiatives  
+— in any new publishing forms, approval of tenure and promotion powers is critical  
+— UC press imprimatur is seen as valuable in most new publishing initiatives
+
+specific needs:  
+— venues for born digital content; tools for content management  
+— slide changed too fast!
+
+UC strategy:  
+— align UC publishing services with the UC academic enterprise  
+— broaden the capacity of the university press; reclaim its original role in service to the academic enterprise  
+— coordinate planning across the UC system; develop intersections in IT planning; digital stewardship, research data support, publishing and preservation  
+— develop publishing services to be interoperable with services for research data
+
+UC Publishing, 2007-2008:  
+— seek efficiencies across traditional publishing modalities, to invest savings in R&D for emerging publishing modalities  
+— provide a more robust journal publication service  
+— formalize a collaboratory structure for UC press and CDL to focus efforts in strategic publishing initiatives  
+— employ cost-recovery mechanisms where necessary; secure open access options where appropriate  
+— establish methods and procedures for non-standard publications
+
+Two brief case studies:  
+John Herbert and Karen Estlund, University of Utah  
+me, MediaCommons; peer-to-peer review
+