Catherine Mitchell: On Services, Users & Alliances

The University of California is moving away from the concept of a repository??we?ve erased the word from our conversation??and instead is focused on providing digital publishing services for faculty authors and developing a robust access interface for these publications, according to Catherine Mitchell, Director of the eScholarship Publishing Group at California Digital Library (CDL). ?We?re moving away from the notion of ?deposit.? In fact, deposit becomes a by-product of the services we?re providing.? Mitchell says CDL has forged a new alliance with the University of California Press to offer a suite of publishing services for works ranging from gray literature to books.