The University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS)

In 2000, IAS Publications joined forces with the University of California Press, the California Digital Library, and internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses to establish a new system-wide, peer-reviewed electronic publications program, the University of California International and Areas Studies Digital Collection (UCIAS). Articles, monographs, and edited volumes published in the Digital Collection are peer-reviewed according to standards set by an interdisciplinary UCIAS Editorial Board and approved by the University of California Press. UCIAS makes digital versions of these works available free of charge to a global network of scholars and encourages international intellectual exchange and research collaboration. All materials in the UCIAS Digital Collection are joint publications of UCIAS and the University of California Press, which will also publish selected UCIAS volumes in hard copy.

The upper level of a two-tiered system, the UCIAS Digital Collection draws on materials deposited as Working Papers in participating units throughout the UC system. This non-peer-reviewed material is lodged in the eScholarship Repository, a central location for depositing pre-publication scholarship, provided by the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. The eScholarship initiative facilitates scholar-led innovations and supports experiments in the production and dissemination of scholarly communications.