The eScholarship Postprints feature provides another way for University of California faculty to disseminate their scholarship, and allows the general public to freely access previously published peer-reviewed articles authored by UC faculty. Read the 2/23/05 Press Release.

The eScholarship Repository is hosted by the California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President. The program was launched to facilitate innovation and support experimentation in the production and dissemination of scholarship. The Repository offers UC departments, centers, and research units direct control over creation and dissemination of the full range of scholarly output, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, as well as post-publication materials.

Please visit the University of California’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication web site if you are interested in learning more about the crisis in scholarly communication and what you can do to help. For a list of publisher policies as they relate to postprints, visit the SHERPA web site, which is dedicated to issues about scholarly communication and open-access.

Depositing Postprints

If you are affiliated with UC and are interested in depositing postprints to the eScholarship Repository, please read more about Submitting Postprints to the Repository.

Requirements

An eScholarship Repository Postprint must be:

• Previously published in a peer-reviewed journal
• Authored or co-authored by at least one person affiliated with UC
• Compliant with the original publisher’s policy on electronic distribution of postprints, or the author must have express permission from the publisher to use the postprint, or the author must own the copyright to the material
• Able to use the currently available technical infrastructure, which supports PDF as well as associated content (images, spreadsheets, etc.)

Benefits

Postprints in the eScholarship Repository offer UC faculty:

• Full-text versions of articles and supplemental material
• Indexed and searchable papers, searchable both across all repository content or exclusively within postprints
• Monthly reports to authors of their paper and article download rates
• Infrastructure provided by the University at no charge to your research unit
• An alternative way to manage their copyright

Policies

Find out more about eScholarship Repository policies.

Further Information

For further information, contact .

If you believe that a postprint has been submitted in error and should be removed from the site, please contact .