february • 2008

inside this issue

UC's medical centers at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego rank second in the state as a provider of Medi-Cal services.
In Orange, Sacramento and San Diego counties, UC is the major provider of care to uninsured and underinsured patients.
UC medical centers operate four Level I trauma centers and staff the trauma center at San Francisco General Hospital.

research in action:

working for the people in california

This special report highlights UC's efforts to help communities battle youth violence. UC Riverside and UC Berkeley are among the 10 national universities - and the only two in California - that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated as Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.

eScholarship Repository exceeds 5 million downloads

UC's eScholarship Repository provides a free and accessible way to share the wealth of the university's academic research.

Part of the California Digital Library, the repository has a cache of more than 20,000 scholarly journal articles and peer-reviewed research available to the public. The content, coming from UC campuses and research labs, ranges across disciplines to include humanities, social science, and math and science research and includes both journal articles and materials from seminar series.

Since its launch in 2002, the repository has had more than 5.5 million full-text downloads, often exceeding 55,000 a week.

Not only does the repository increase access to valuable research findings, but it also gives faculty and researchers an alternative to publishing in high-priced, for-profit journals.

The eScholarship Repository is part of a broader UC effort to harness technology for the low-cost dissemination of educational and research materials.

The repository can be accessed at http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship .