The University of California is by no means the first to consider institutional e-prints archives (despite what the headline suggests) but its size makes it among the more important to do so. "The eScholarship Repository, a project of CDL's eScholarship initiative that launched in April 2002, offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating UC research unit, center, or academic department. Scholars may upload their work at no cost; users may download that work free of charge." For a university this size, the savings are potentially enormous and the benefits immediately available.
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