Webcast invitation: Library-press partnerships in action

[Jennifer McLennan <jennifer@arl.org>]

Library-press partnerships in action:
The new University of California Publishing Services

A SPARC Webcast
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
1:00 - 2:00PM EST

Registration is free, but required. RSVP by February 15 at 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml

In December of last year, the University of California Press and 
the California Digital Library (CDL) announced University of 
California Publishing Services (UCPubS), a joint program intended 
to respond to the publishing needs within UC and ?leverage the 
power of the University of California?s publishing and scholarly 
communications network: (http://copyedit.ucpress.edu/pubservices).

UCPubS brings the complementary services of the press and the 
library together to offer a rich suite of open-access digital and 
print publishing tools to the UC system centers, institutes, and 
departments that produce scholarly books. Services including the 
library's eScholarship digital publishing platform and the 
press?s marketing and fulfillment expertise -- for example -- 
have been united in an effort to ensure sustainable scholarly 
publishing throughout the university.

The program has been very well received. Despite being launched 
just two months ago, UCPubS is already providing services to a 
variety of groups and projects across the UC system, building a 
growing number of publisher partners, and anticipates a strong 
list of books to come online in 2010.

Please join us, Wednesday, February 17, when Catherine Mitchell 
(CDL) and Laura Cerutti (UC Press) will log on to review the 
progress of this program, including the motivations behind their 
library-press collaboration, the specific services UCPubS 
provides, their outreach efforts across the campuses, the 
challenges they've encountered so far, and how other presses and 
libraries can build on this experience.

This Webcast is held in conjunction with the SPARC Campus-based 
Publishing initiative, a program and Web center designed by a 
panel of advisors from the library and university press 
communities to support successful publishing partnerships. For 
more information on the SPARC program, visit 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/index.shtml

More information about UCPubS is online at http://copyedit.ucpress.edu/pubservices

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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Programs & Operations
SPARC