Post Tagged with: "eScholarship"
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Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development Launches on eScholarship
eScholarship Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (JDEED), a new Diamond open access journal seeking to facilitate sustained, dynamic conversations about DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) practices, theories, and possibilities in higher education educational development. JDEED is supported by a community of educational developers and scholars working across higher education institutions, with strong ties to equity-focused teaching and learning initiatives. The journal creates a dedicated space for scholarship that advances DEI initiatives in educational development and centers the experiences of historically underrepresented communities. The journal’s editorial team is […]
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Analog Game Studies Joins eScholarship Publishing
eScholarship Publishing is pleased to welcome Analog Game Studies (AGS), an established open access journal founded in 2014, to its Diamond open access journals program. AGS is a leading venue for interdisciplinary scholarship on games with an analog component, including tabletop, role-playing, and live-action games. The journal brings together scholarly work in the humanities, media studies, education, and sociology, with a focus on the cultural and social dimensions of play. AGS is stewarded by Editor-in-Chief Edmond Chang (Ohio University) and Senior Editor Aaron Trammell (UC Irvine) alongside an international editorial collective. The journal has historically operated as an independent, community-driven […]
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Open Journals Collective Launches Global Investment Campaign to Provide Libraries an “Exit Ramp” from Commercial Big Deals
The Open Journals Collective (OJC) is proud to announce the launch of its official investment campaign, inviting libraries to secure a sustainable, community-led future for scholarly publishing. The California Digital Library is thrilled to be a founding OJC publishing partner, with 14 eScholarship Publishing journals included in the 2026 collection. Designed as a scalable and viable alternative to commercial “big deals” and so-called “transformative agreements,” OJC offers libraries a streamlined pathway to support a diverse ecosystem of diamond open-access journals without the administrative overhead of managing hundreds of individual agreements. Diamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which […]
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Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project
Starting in 2025, UC Libraries are supporting several projects intended to broaden access to University of California research and scholarship by making UC-authored books open access. Following on successful efforts to open UC-authored journal articles, these projects will enable UC authors publishing books with select university presses to choose open access at no cost to them, and will also begin opening previously published books by UC authors. The projects represent both a “strategic investment in BPC-based OA monograph initiatives that directly support authors…aligned with UC research and teaching” and “strengthened partnerships with university presses,” two core recommendations of UC Libraries’ recently […]
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eScholarship Journal Spotlight: American Indian Culture and Research Journal
In this University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight interesting work of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program. Our latest dispatch is from David Delgado Shorter, Editor-in-Chief of American Indian Culture and Research Journal. In his Editorial Statement from the the journal’s most recent issue, Shorter writes: In the two years since our journal moved to an open-access publishing model, the world has changed in many ways. Many of us in North America are feeling whiplashed by unprecedented cuts to those resources that have made Indigenous studies possible. By leaving the subscription-based budget […]
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eScholarship Journal Spotlight: Parks Stewardship Forum
In this University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our latest interview is with editors of Parks Stewardship Forum (PSF): Jonathan B. Jarvis (Editorial Board member), Rebecca Conard (Co-Managing Editor), and David Harmon (Co-Managing Editor). In a few sentences, describe how Parks Stewardship Forum started and the purpose it serves within your field: PSF started in 2020, when the Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity at UC Berkeley was launched. The Institute’s founding director has a long-standing […]
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eScholarship Journal Spotlight: Electronic Green Journal
In this new University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our latest interview is with two editors of the Electronic Green Journal: Editor-In-Chief, Maria A. Jankowska (UCLA Librarian Emerita) and Managing Editor and Book Review Editor, Kelsey Brown, (UCLA Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian). The journal recently celebrated its 30th anniversary of publication! In a few sentences, describe the origin/focus/purpose of your journal: The history of the journal began in 1991, when a group of environmental enthusiasts […]
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UC Press and eScholarship Launch UC Publishing Services program
UC Press and CDL’s eScholarship program are pleased to announce the launch of UC Publishing Services (UCPUBS). Leveraging the expertise of both the Press and eScholarship Publishing, UCPUBS offers a broad range of publishing solutions aimed at supporting the traditional and open access publishing needs of editorially independent publishing programs within the University of California system. UC Publishing Services provides scalable publishing solutions and infrastructure to organized research units, departments, and other UC affiliates wishing to manage their book series and imprints, journals, and other kinds of academic content. Together, UC Press and eScholarship Publishing produce and disseminate approximately 200 […]
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eScholarship Journal Spotlight: Glossa Psycholinguistics
In this new University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our first interview is with the co-editors-in-chief of Glossa Psycholinguistics, Fernanda Ferreira (Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC Davis) and Brian Dillon (Professor of Linguistics, UMass Amherst). What is the origin/focus/purpose of your journal? Glossa Psycholinguistics publishes contributions to the field of psycholinguistics, which is the scientific discipline focusing on how people process, remember, and acquire human languages. For example, in a recent issue we have several articles […]
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New Open Access Book from eScholarship Publishing: The Art of Diversity by Susan Carlson
eScholarship Publishing, University of California, announces a new open access book release: The Art of Diversity: A Chronicle of Advancing the University of California Faculty through Efforts in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2010–2022 by Susan Carlson. In this institutional history, Carlson details the University of California’s systemwide efforts to increase the diversity of its faculty during her tenure as Vice Provost, UC Office of the President. It tells the story of a remarkable alignment of California stakeholders—from the UC Regents and University leaders to the Academic Senate and the California legislature, from small faculty teams to multicampus coalitions—and how they […]
