UC eScholarship Repository Adds Peer-Reviewed Publications
UCLA faculty have another alternative to the restrictive access and economic unsustainability of the traditional scholarly communication model: the UC eScholarship Repository now offers free, open access to peer-reviewed journals. To browse, visit the list.
UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has published its new journal, InterActions, on the site, and Comitatus, a thirty-four-year-old journal sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, will be migrating to the site soon. Other titles include San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science from UC Davis, UC publications in the geological sciences and in zoology, and the UC international and area studies digital collection.
Since 2002 the eScholarship Repository has offered UC faculty a central online location for depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, and conference proceedings, which can then be accessed free of charge by scholars around the world. This new peer-review capability offers an alternative to publishing research in for-profit journals, the rising costs of which have become a burden to academic libraries with restricted budgets.
If you have questions about peer-reviewed journals or other eScholarship Repository content, contact Hannah Walker in the UCLA Digital Library Program by phone at extension 69781 or by email.
