What is the role of UC Press in the Universitys electronic publishing efforts?
UC Press is working closely with the California Digital Library on partnerships that include making hundreds of books publicly available online free of charge (http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/). By December 2003 there will be nearly 1,500 UC Press titles available to the UC community; 400 of these will be available to the public. This represents the largest collection of university press books online. UC Press has also partnered with the CDL and UC International and Area Studies (UCIAS), a group of internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses, to publish articles, monographs and peer-reviewed edited volumes. The UCIAS Digital Collection offers the online volumes available free of charge to scholars to facilitate international intellectual exchange and collaboration. UC Press may publish print editions of the volumes. As a highly regarded publisher, UC Press brings credibility and sets an example for other university presses to explore new modes of scholarly publis
