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The next thing that occurred to me is figshare - I think they're pretty easy to use, and everything you put in there gets a DOI. They're pretty agnostic about content type.
I also found this list of preprint servers from ASAPBio - https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers - and a similar one on Wikipeda - https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers . There are some multidisciplinary options in there that might work, although ArXiv does seem like the best fit. One I hadn't thought of until I saw it on the list is Zenodo. Apparently they also welcome preprints, and like Figshare I think they don't do any kind of review, it's unmediated. (They may also give you a DOI). FWIW, Zenodo is operated by CERN (and a partner of Dryad!), whereas Figshare is part of DigitalScience.
Hi Martha:
I don't know the space well, but I wonder if there's a community OA repository for social sciences similar to what Humanities Commons has done for the humanities. They encourage folks to upload books there. Maybe something like https://onlinelibrary.london.ac.uk/resources/databases/social-science-open-access-repository?
Another idea would be to upload and host it somewhere like the Internet Archive.
tim
Hi SCCKG,
I'm hoping that you may have some input on a publishing conundrum!
An Emeritus Professor in Sociology at UCSC wants to publish an edited volume of essays written by prisoners in Soledad through a UCSC project and course. We discussed publishing it on eScholarship. However, his department, which is Sociology, does not have a research unit in eScholarship. We currently do not have a Social Sciences Division liaison in the Library, though I may still try reaching out to the Sociology Department myself to find a contact who could be an administrator for a new unit.
My question for this group is whether you might have any other suggestions for where this professor could publish this book. Any ideas are welcome!
Thank you,Martha
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Scholarly Communication Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Timothy VollmerScholarly Communication & Copyright LibrarianUniversity of California, BerkeleyDoe Library, 189 AnnexBerkeley, CA 94720Pronouns: he/him