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.
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