California Digital Library

Title	California Digital Library
Class	Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial)
URL	https://www.cdlib.org/ See also https://escholarship.org/
Owner	eScholarship is a service of the California Digital Library (CDL). CDL is a unit within the University of California Office of the President, which is the systemwide headquarters of the University of California system.
Address	415 20th St., Oakland, CA 94612
Copyright and Licensing	Our copyright information for readers of eScholarship journals, monographs, and repository content is located at https://escholarship.org/terms
Copyright and Licensing Policy	We do not dictate licenses for eScholarhip journals, which may be managed by scholarly societies, undergraduate research programs, or other academic units. We do provide sample language for a recommended author agreement that most journals adopt, and that agreement has a CC BY license, with language journals can swap in for other licenses. Since adding CC license language to our sample author agreement in 2013, most of our new journals have chosen to use a CC license of some kind. The guidance we provide for best practices is in our help site, for example https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000128029-which-creative-commons-licenses-does-escholarship-recommend-
Complaint email	https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000081206-removing-content-or-reporting-copyright-concerns
Complaint policy	We would expect most complaints to be handled by the policies of the journal boards/managers. If a complaint came to us directly, we would work with the affected journal or unit. To contact eScholarship staff with a complaint, please visit https://help.escholarship.org/support/tickets/new
Publication charge policy	eScholarship doesn’t charge fees for article or book publications, but a few of our journals do. Journals with publication charges state this on their informational pages.
OASPA Compliant OA Journals	80
OA articles approx. number in 12 months	Approximately 1200 per year from eScholarship journals.
OASPA Compliant OA Books	We host many academic units that publish monograph series in eScholarship, all of which are freely available to read.
Initiatives	The University of California, through its libraries and CDL, supports many open access initiatives, e.g. OA2020, the Pay it Forward project, and Editoria. Our licensing team subscribes or is a contributing member to many other initiatives such as arXiv and Knowledge Unlatched.
Peer review process	This varies by journal and is handled by the journals
Peer review policy	This varies by journal and is handled by the journals. We provide some guidance on best practices here: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000134459-peer-review-policies-best-practices