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 

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM Martha Stuit <[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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Martha Stuit
Scholarly Communication Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Timothy Vollmer
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
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