The Advisory Council of the EarthArXiv preprint service for earth sciences
is pleased to announce
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2020/05/eartharxiv-announces-new-partnership-with-cdl/>
a partnership with the California Digital Library (CDL) that will support
EarthArXiv’s mission, future growth, and long-term sustainability. Core to
this partnership will be the transition of EarthArXiv’s preprints server
<http://eartharxiv.org/> – including public display and submission
management – from the Center for Open Science to the eScholarship
Publishing program at the CDL.
CDL will host EarthArXiv using Janeway <https://janeway.systems/>, an open
source publishing platform developed by the Centre for Technology and
Publishing and the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck University of
London. EarthArXiv’s Advisory Council will maintain ownership and control
over the preprint server, while the eScholarship Publishing team will
contribute to the development, support, and maintenance of the Janeway
platform.
Since its founding, EarthArXiv has partnered with the Center for Open
Science <https://www.cos.io/> to host its content online. Recently,
however, financial considerations made it necessary for the Advisory
Council to explore alternative hosting partners. “After several
organizations stepped up to offer new partnerships (for which EarthArXiv
will always be grateful), the Advisory Council voted unanimously to partner
with the team at the California Digital Library,” said Bruce Caron, one of
the founders of EarthArXiv.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with EarthArXiv to support immediate open
access to important work in the earth sciences,” said Catherine Mitchell,
Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization at CDL. “Preprint
servers play an increasingly crucial role in scholarly communication, as
researchers seek to share their work and engage their colleagues farther
upstream in the publication process. We believe that academic institutions
like the University of California have a role to play in supporting these
research communities and in encouraging the rapid and open circulation of
their research findings.”
James Frew, Associate Professor in the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara
added, “The earth sciences are well-represented at UCSB, and open-access
preprint services are crucial to their continued growth. Combining the
science-focused distributed governance of EarthArXiv with the long-term
stewardship of CDL is a dream solution for us.”
Work will begin immediately to adapt the Janeway platform’s preprints
functionality to meet the needs of the EarthArXiv community. “We are
delighted,” added Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and
Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, “to have this opportunity to
work with CDL and EarthArXiv to develop Janeway’s preprints facility.
Janeway was always designed as an extensible platform and we have quietly
had the ability to handle preprints for some time. This new partnership
will galvanize development on this aspect of the platform and provide
others with the ability to re-use our work.”
EarthArXiv authors and readers should expect minimal disruptions to the
service, and improved functionality when the site transitions to its new
home in Summer 2020.
To receive progress updates, you may join the EarthArXiv Loomio group
<https://www.loomio.org/g/lpIH8bFU/eartharxiv> or follow the announcement
discussion at: https://bit.ly/ea_preprints_update.
About the partners:
*EarthArXiv*
Since it was launched October 23, 2017, the EarthArXiv preprint service has
added nearly fifteen-hundred papers—preprints or postprints—to its
repository. EarthArXiv is governed by an international team of volunteers:
the EarthArXiv Advisory Council. It has an active social media presence on
Twitter @eartharxiv <https://twitter.com/eartharxiv>. More at:
eartharxiv.github.io
EarthArXiv Logo by Andrew Cross (License: CC BY
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>)
*California Digital Library (CDL)*
As the consortial digital library for the University of California system,
CDL provides transformative digital library services, grounded in campus
partnerships and extended through external collaborations, that amplify the
impact of the libraries, scholarship, and resources of the University of
California. CDL’s eScholarship Publishing program offers a comprehensive
open access publishing program for journals, monographs, conference
proceedings, and other original scholarship. More at: cdlib.org/about and
escholarship.org
*Janeway*
Janeway is a press, journal, and preprints management system developed by
the Centre for Technology and Publishing and the Open Library of Humanities
at Birkbeck, University of London. More at: janeway.systems
*Contact Info:*
*California Digital Library*
*Justin Gonder*
Senior Product Manager, eScholarship Publishing
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*EarthArXiv*
*Tom Narock*
Co-Founder and Member of the EarthArXiv Advisory Council:
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*Christopher Jackson*
Co-Founder and Member of the EarthArXiv Advisory Council:
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*Janeway*
*Martin Paul Eve & Andy Byers*
https://janeway.systems/contact/
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