Catherine Mitchell

Biography

<p>Catherine Mitchell<span style="font-weight: 400;"> is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning, development, and operational management of the California Digital Library&rsquo;s Publishing, Archives, and Digitization program, which provides the University of California research community with open access publishing and distribution services, and aggregates world-class digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California, serving an array of end users including researchers, scholars, students, and the general public. Program services include </span><a href="https://www.escholarship.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">eScholarship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (UC&rsquo;s Open Access IR/Publishing platform, with 90+ journals), </span><a href="https://calisphere.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Calisphere</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (an open gateway to over two million digitized historical images, texts and recordings), and the Google Books/</span><a href="https://hathitrust.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HathiTrust</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> projects. Catherine is also Operations Director of UC&rsquo;s </span><a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Office of Scholarly Communication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and, in this capacity, is particularly engaged in questions of use, value, authorship, and professional legitimacy. She holds an A.B. in English Literature from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley.</span></p>