Over the next decade, a significant challenge for research universities is to influence and facilitate development of a financially sustainable model for managing scholarly information, including its production as well as its access and use. Scholars strongly desire the opportunity to develop strategic innovations in scholarship that match their needs with the opportunities created by digital technologies. Such faculty innovations promise the likeliest means to address the imminent threats to the sustainability of scholarly communication such as:

• the increasing volume and escalating costs of traditional scholarly communication;
• economic and organizational barriers to entry in digital publishing or the creation of innovative alternatives;
• adequate signals of quality within burgeoning literatures;
• efficient dissemination among peers, with opportunities for review and commentary; and protection of intellectual property, and enduring availability for the future.

eScholarship

The overall goal of eScholarship activities is the development of an infrastructure for digitally-based scholarly communication that:

• Facilitates the expressed mutual interests of the University, its faculty, and the broader scholarly community;
• Leverages the formidable capabilities and strengths of the University of California in order to provide effective national leadership in this area; and
• Supports and extends experimental reconfigurations of the components of scholarly communication by communities of scholars themselves.

Go to the eScholarship web page (http://escholarship.cdlib.org/)