UC Riverside eScholarship Report
About eScholarship
eScholarship is UC's institutional repository and Open Access publishing platform.
eScholarship Publishing provides comprehensive publication services for UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars who seek to publish original, open access journals, books, conference proceedings, and other scholarship. The eScholarship Publishing program also supports two preprint servers, EarthArXiv and EcoEvoRxiv.
eScholarship Repository offers preservation and dissemination services for a wide range of scholarship including working papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), student capstone projects, and paper/seminar series.
eScholarship is managed by the California Digital Library (CDL) and is available without fees to UC-affiliated departments, research units, publishing programs, and scholars.
Snapshot of UC Riverside on eScholarship
Viewing Live Statistics
Live data links are available in the footer. Tip: You can view live statistics for any eScholarship unit by adding /stats after the unit URL (e.g., escholarship.org/uc/ucr/stats).
Learn more about understanding eScholarship usage statistics
UC Open Access Policies
UC Open Access Policies cover scholarly articles and allow UC employees to retain rights in their work by granting the University a non-exclusive license to exercise rights under copyright, including distribution and display.
Publication Types Covered: The default covered types include journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Authors may deposit other materials they consider scholarly articles in their discipline.
Learn more about UC Open Access Policies
UC Publication Management System (UCPMS)
The UCPMS is used by UC authors systemwide to make it easier to identify open access policy articles and deposit them to eScholarship. The system emails authors and the delegated helpers biweekly if it has found new publications to claim and deposit to their department Open Access Policy Deposits series and UC Riverside Previously Published Works. CDL have worked with UC Riverside to ensure that the faculty and researchers who are likely to be publishing are receiving notifications.
UCR Author ID Cleanup Project
To reduce information overload for UCR authors, the UCR Library has implemented the Author ID Cleanup Project. Library students manually verify UCR author IDs—such as ORCID and Scopus Author ID—enabling auto-claim for verified IDs and reducing unnecessary reminder emails. The project is expected to finish in spring 2026.
eScholarship OA Policy Deposits
View the underlying data in our Google Sheets workbook.
UCR Outreach Projects
The UCR Library has partnered with colleges and schools to establish dedicated eScholarship units for showcasing UCR research:
School of Medicine
UCR School of Medicine - Showcasing research from UCR's medical school faculty and researchers.
College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
UCR CHASS - Featuring scholarship from humanities, arts, and social sciences faculty and researchers.
eScholarship Publishing Services
eScholarship offers publishing and production tools as well as professional support and consulting services for journals, preprints, monographs, conference proceedings, and other UC-affiliated original scholarship. eScholarship's Diamond Open Access publishing program includes 90+ UC affiliated academic journals.
UCR Journals on eScholarship
Faculty Journal
Undergraduate Journal
Content Sources
Content enters eScholarship through multiple pathways. Learn more
Publishing Systems
- eScholarship Journal Publishing System (Janeway)
Repository Content
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
- All UC campuses deposit ETDs in eScholarship
- Workflow: ProQuest → CDL → Cataloging → eScholarship → Merritt preservation
- Learn more about the ETD service
Discovery and Visibility
eScholarship content is indexed by major search engines, academic databases, and library systems for maximum discoverability. Learn more
Search Engines
- Google / Google Scholar
- Baidu
- Bing / Yahoo
- Internet Archive
- Wikipedia
Library Systems
- Melvyl / OCLC WorldCat
- UC Library Search
- Primo Central Discovery Index (CDI)
Specialized Indexes (A-E)
- Clarivate
- CNKI
- CORE
- DOAJ
- EBSCO
- EBSCO CINAHL
- Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
- Elsevier Ovid Emcare
- Europe PubMed Central
Specialized Indexes (F-O)
- Free Journal Network
- JSTOR
- MathSciNet
- National Digital Library of India
- OASPA
- OpenAlex
- OSTI (Department of Energy)
Specialized Indexes (P-Z)
- ProQuest Central
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- RePEc (economics)
- ROAD
- Scopus
- SUDOC (FR)
- Zeitschriften Datenbank (ZDB)
- Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Article-Level Metrics
eScholarship integrates with Altmetrics to show article-level engagement data including social media mentions, news coverage, and more.
ORCID iDs are displayed on individual article pages when available, helping connect works to author profiles.
eScholarship provides article views and downloads in its Metrics tab on each article page.
Authors receive quarterly statistics notifications for deposited publications, keeping them informed of their work's impact.
See an example of article metrics | Learn more about usage statistics for eScholarship content authors
Unit Performance
About Research Units
Departments and research units can establish dedicated spaces in eScholarship to showcase their affiliated work. Submitted content is approved by designated local administrators.
Works from the Publication Management System appear in the campus-wide "UC Riverside Previously Published Works" series and department "Open Access Policy Deposits" series.
Engagement Analysis
Complete Data by Unit
| Unit | Deposits | Total Requests | Downloads | View-only | Download % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations | 5,441 | 4,859,863 | 1,611,148 | 3,248,715 | 33.2% |
| UC Riverside Previously Published Works | 11,582 | 4,392,186 | 1,786,617 | 2,605,569 | 40.7% |
| University of California Transportation Center | 1,622 | 1,321,440 | 563,671 | 757,769 | 42.7% |
| Microbiology and Plant Pathology | 1,972 | 882,077 | 272,642 | 609,435 | 30.9% |
| School of Medicine | 2,806 | 857,697 | 284,620 | 573,077 | 33.2% |
| Bourns College of Engineering | 2,058 | 806,276 | 299,081 | 507,195 | 37.1% |
| The Institute for Research on World-Systems | 203 | 673,408 | 234,664 | 438,744 | 34.8% |
| College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | 998 | 595,161 | 320,161 | 275,000 | 53.8% |
| University Honors | 927 | 472,257 | 176,827 | 295,430 | 37.4% |
| Center for Embedded Network Sensing | 671 | 447,373 | 174,611 | 272,762 | 39.0% |
| University of California Energy Institute | 144 | 246,488 | 118,696 | 127,792 | 48.2% |
| UC Riverside Library | 195 | 212,209 | 94,030 | 118,179 | 44.3% |
| University of California Water Resources Center | 207 | 208,267 | 85,690 | 122,577 | 41.1% |
| Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review | 139 | 165,215 | 53,543 | 111,672 | 32.4% |
| UC Riverside Undergraduate Research Journal | 94 | 151,731 | 32,969 | 118,762 | 21.7% |
| University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute | 69 | 130,261 | 41,434 | 88,827 | 31.8% |
| Pacific Rim Research Program | 28 | 106,946 | 14,195 | 92,751 | 13.3% |
| Opolis | 15 | 77,500 | 38,629 | 38,871 | 49.8% |
| Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics | 115 | 76,448 | 27,945 | 48,503 | 36.6% |
| University of California Institute for Labor and Employment | 41 | 65,252 | 36,092 | 29,160 | 55.3% |
| UC World History Workshop | 7 | 35,735 | 14,486 | 21,249 | 40.5% |
| University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity | 14 | 25,841 | 16,587 | 9,254 | 64.2% |
| Department of Political Science | 44 | 25,326 | 9,782 | 15,544 | 38.6% |
| Center for Conservation Biology | 11 | 17,913 | 11,052 | 6,861 | 61.7% |
| UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group | 6 | 17,380 | 6,393 | 10,987 | 36.8% |
| California Community College Collaborative (C4) | 7 | 8,031 | 3,025 | 5,006 | 37.7% |
| Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity | 12 | 4,740 | 1,812 | 2,928 | 38.2% |
| Hispanic Studies | 5 | 2,369 | 629 | 1,740 | 26.6% |
| Center for Ideas and Society | 2 | 1,741 | 987 | 754 | 56.7% |
| Inland Empire Labor and Community Center | 3 | 1,600 | 637 | 963 | 39.8% |
| UC Global Health Institute | 1 | 1,141 | 339 | 802 | 29.7% |
UC Campus OA Policy Implementation Dashboard
View systemwide OA policy compliance and implementation statistics. Tip: Use the campus selector in the top-right corner to compare statistics across different UC campuses.