Redesigned eScholarship Site Launches: California Digital Library

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-10-25

Summary:

"The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of eScholarship, the University of California’s Open Access repository and publishing platform.

With this release, eScholarship now offers a robust consortial repository solution, with custom access layers and a strong brand identity for each of our ten UC campuses and 70+ academic journals. The new eScholarship site is designed to meet the WCAG 2.0 AA standard for ADA accessibility, scales automatically for mobile and tablet devices, and features a flexible, modular design that allows for multiple content display options and customizable landing pages.

The eScholarship redesign represents a significant departure from previous technology approaches—away from custom builds and toward more widely adopted, open source technology solutions used both inside and outside the academic library domain, including node.js for the server-side code and React for the front-end framework. The code behind the new eScholarship site is located in GitHub. Post-release, the team will turn its attention to creating a public API. ..."

Link:

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2017/10/24/redesigned-escholarship-site-launches/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.floss oa.repositories oa.ir oa.apis oa.publishing oa.mobile

Date tagged:

10/25/2017, 09:55

Date published:

10/25/2017, 05:55