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Hi Martha,

I was talking to someone on another campus about where to post something else previously unpublished, when the author's home department didn't have an active presence in eScholarship. It was an article preprint, but similar issues. This is what I told them:

The next thing that occurred to me is figshare<https://figshare.com/> - I think they're pretty easy to use, and everything you put in there gets a DOI. They're pretty agnostic about content type<https://help.figshare.com/article/item-types>.

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<https://help.zenodo.org/>, 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.

Zenodo or figshare, or, as Tim points out, Humanities Commons might all be good fits. Your author might also find the OAPEN guide<https://oabooks-toolkit.org/> helpful, e.g. https://oabooks-toolkit.org/lifecycle/3042319-consider-publishing-options/article/4149211-self-publishing-your-open-access-book

Best,
Katie


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:54 AM Timothy Vollmer <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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<https://hcommons.org/> 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

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM Martha Stuit <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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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