Redesigned eScholarship site launches

"The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of the eScholarship repository and publishing platform. eScholarship serves as the Open Access repository for the University of California system, offering tools and services to help UC scholars and researchers openly share the full range of their scholarly work. eScholarship also provides a comprehensive Open Access publishing program, currently publishing over 70 academic journals across academic disciplines.

The eScholarship redesign represents a significant departure from previous technology approaches to the site: the development team has consciously moved away from custom builds and toward more widely adopted, open source technology solutions and strategies used frequently both inside and outside the academic library domain. Selected highlights include:

• A server built with Sinatra + Sequel
• Isomorphic JavaScript via node.js for server-side prerendering
• A "single-page" application built with React and various plugins"