The California Digital Library (CDL), in
conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen
Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in
support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the
Academic Senate in July 2013.
Symplectic’s flagship product, Elements, will form
the basis of a research information management system intended to
simplify participation in UC’s OA Policy by providing an efficient
method for faculty to deposit their research into eScholarship,
UC’s institutional repository. This system holds great promise for
dramatically increasing the rate of deposit of faculty publications in
accordance with the policy.
With
a robust set of features that address the specific requirements of the
UC OA Policy and the needs of UC authors, Elements will closely monitor
publication sources, including public and
licensed publication indexes, for any new materials published by UC
authors. Once a new publication is detected in the indexes, the system
will collect as much information about that publication as possible and
contact the author(s) by email for confirmation
and manuscript upload. Author-approved publications will then be
automatically submitted to eScholarship, where they will be openly
available to the public.
Symplectic, a UK-based developer of integrated
research information management systems, was chosen after an exhaustive
RFP process, conducted by members of the CDL team and representatives
from the three pilot campuses: UC Irvine, UCLA,
and UCSF. The publication harvesting system will launch in June 2014,
and will serve the three pilot campuses. Contingent on funding and
review by the Academic Senate, the system will be extended in June 2015
to cover the remaining UC campuses.
Further developments in the implementation of this harvesting system can be tracked by visiting the
Open Access Policy Implementation (OAPI) wiki or subscribing to the
OAPI mailing list.
To learn more about the UC Open Access Policy or to contact us with questions, visit the
Office of Scholarly Communication site.
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