California Digital Library Collaborates with UC Davis Health in Publication of Open Access Text, New Resource Uses Manifold Platform

From the University of California Office of Scholarly Communications:

Faculty at UC Davis Health in collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) and Blaisdell Medical Library are pleased to announce the release of Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text. This new online resource aims to provide an open access clinical resource for radiologists and clinicians who practice ultrasound in low and limited resourced healthcare settings. The project was conceived of and developed by two UC Davis Health physicians: Michael Schick and Rebecca Stein-Wexler, with help from Aida Nasirishargh as the online editor.

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When Drs. Schick and Stein-Wexler consulted with Blaisdell Medical Library about publishing options for this unique work, health sciences librarian Amy Studer saw the opportunity to connect them with CDL to investigate the possibility of hosting their work on an open access publishing platform. “This publication, by virtue of its intended audience and goals, is particularly concerned with issues of accessibility and discoverability, and CDL’s eScholarship Publishing program shares that commitment. We regard this publication as an important step forward in redesigning medical publications for the specific needs of users in the field,” says Studer.

Because of the large number of videos and images needed to illustrate the concepts in the text, CDL identified the Manifold platform as the best system for building and displaying the work. “Foundational to the Manifold platform is the ability to harness dynamic web content as an integral component of a publication, layering text and media alongside one another in an intuitive reader that encourages thoughtful engagement,” said Terence Smyre, Manifold Digital Projects Editor. “Manifold’s open-source, open-access ethos is also specifically aimed at the public good — values that align strongly with the goals of the project.”

This publication also represents the first project completed under the eScholarship Labs program at California Digital Library. “We launched the Scholarship Labs program in 2019, with the aim of fostering innovation in scholarly publishing by piloting new publishing technologies to support experimental forms of scholarship,” said Justin Gonder, Senior Product Manager, Publishing at CDL. “Manifold has now graduated from the Labs program and is available for use by any member of the University of California community who has a scholarly project in mind that requires deep integration of text and media.”

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