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UC Publishing Services

Leveraging the publishing expertise of both UC Press and CDL’s eScholarship program, UC Publishing Services (UCPUBS) offers a broad range of solutions aimed at supporting traditional and open access publishing needs of editorially independent publishing programs within the University of California system.

UC Publishing Services provides scalable publishing solutions and infrastructure to organized research units, departments, and other UC affiliates wishing to manage their book series and imprints, journals, and other kinds of academic content.  Together, UC Press and eScholarship Publishing produce and disseminate approximately 200 books and over 135 journals annually, in addition to managing preprints and other content types. With this expertise and experience, we have the know-how to help you achieve your publishing goals.  Potential projects include:

  • Scholarly books and journals
  • Textbooks, course packs, and supplemental course materials
  • Manuals, reports, and materials for professional use
  • Open educational resources (OERs)
  • Conference and symposia proceedings
  • Reissues of out-of-print books
  • Preprints
Through our combined capabilities, we offer a range of publishing services to UC campus entities and other nonprofits, including, but not limited to:

  • Editorial project management
  • Copyediting
  • Design
  • Typesetting
  • Proofreading
  • Open access book and journal publishing services
  • Sales and distribution (print on demand and ebook)
  • Credit and collections management
  • Title information distribution to major consumer and library vendors
  • Indexing
  • DOIs
  • Multiple or mixed revenue models: open access, ebook and print sales
  • Peer review management for journals
  • Persistent access and preservation 
  • Sales reports and usage statistics
  • Preprint community infrastructure
  • Repository services for postprints, working papers, reports, etc.
  • Consultation on your publishing project

If you are interested in finding a home for your new or existing publishing program or have other needs that we can address, please get in touch with our team! We can be reached by email at [email protected] or [email protected].

You may also fill out our interest form, which will ask you some preliminary questions about your organization and your project that will help us direct you to the appropriate person for an initial consultation.

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