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Advancing Scholarly Communication: Penn State's Digital Publishing Initiatives

Learn about Penn State University Libraries' digital initiatives, including DPubS and digital collections. Explore the goals, role, and future plans for scholarly communication transformation.

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Advancing Scholarly Communication: Penn State's Digital Publishing Initiatives

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  1. Penn State and DPubS Educause 2005 Eric G Ferrin Senior Director Digital Library Technologies October 19, 2005

  2. Pattee Library and Paterno Library: A New Century Begins • Ranked 13th in North America • 4.5 million volumes • Penn State University Libraries comprises 36 libraries at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth

  3. Penn State University Libraries

  4. Collections Traditional Materials E-Books • $16 million/year for collections and electronic resources • Added 1 million volumes since 1997 • 25% spent on online resources • Access to remote collections as important as local collections Historical Collections Databases

  5. Why DPubS at Penn State? • Increasing cost of providing scholarly information to the research community

  6. Shifting BudgetResources

  7. Random STMJournal Renewals

  8. Collection budget projection

  9. Why DPubS at Penn State? • Need to make emerging research more easily accessible

  10. Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing • Partnership between: • University Libraries • Reports to the Provost • Penn State Press • Reports to the VP for Research

  11. Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing • Use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication • -- At Penn State and beyond

  12. Goals of the ODSP • Move existing print journals and monographs to a digital environment • Provide Print On Demand for appropriate paper copies • Give access to library collections too delicate to handle

  13. Penn State’s Role in DPubS • Alpha test of DPubS “Open Source” installation procedures • Installed on RedHat Linux: Sept 2005 • Installed on Solaris 10: Oct 2005 • Alpha test of DPubS “Open Source” production and maintenance • Loaded Pennsylvania History: Oct 2005

  14. Penn State’s Role in DPubS • Improve DPubS “Open Source” installation time • Verify prerequisite software installation • Streamline configuration and maintenance of system information • Improve installation documentation • Assist in building an “open source” DPubS • Licensing, Maintenance, User Base

  15. Penn State’s Role in DPubS • Establish a Penn State DPubS production environment • Pennsylvania History: Nov 2005 • Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: End of 2005 • Conference Proceedings

  16. DPubS at Penn State

  17. DPubS at Penn State

  18. DPubS at Penn State

  19. The Future • Encourage the adoption of an open source publication management system • Use DPubS to provide a general purpose publishing platform for scholarly literature in diverse fields

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