Member Record: 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 link | Our copyright information for readers of eScholarship journals, monographs, and repository content is located at https://escholarship.org/terms |
| Copyright 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. |
| OA journals | 80 |
| OA articles | Approximately 1200 per year from eScholarship journals. |
| 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 |