eScholarship PLUS: Sustaining Open Access Scholarly Publishing Efforts through POD and eBook sales at the University of California (ALA Midwinter 2013)

For over ten years, UC faculty and students have increased the exposure of their scholarly output with the eScholarship Open Access publishing platform and repository tools. With our new eScholarship PLUS program, editors of UC-affiliated journals and book series can add print-on-demand and eBook services with full retail and global distribution support to their scholarly publishing toolkit.

eScholarship PLUS provides journals and publishing units with an opportunity to recover some of the costs associated with traditional open access publishing, while simultaneously removing the upfront costs and logistical challenges of managing large print runs. Most importantly, editors can now focus on content (rather than distribution) and can enable readers to access that content in whichever format they prefer. This brief presentation will describe the eScholarship PLUS program in more detail, including: business models, vendor partnerships and cross-platform technical integration.

Sample finished products (both digital and print) will also be available for review.