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I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n. „DiPP – An Open Access Initiative for Scholarly Communication“ PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 Vancouver, Canada Cordula Nötzelmann & Peter Reimer 2007/07/12. Contents.
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I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n „DiPP – An Open Access Initiative for Scholarly Communication“ PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007Vancouver, Canada Cordula Nötzelmann & Peter Reimer 2007/07/12
Contents • The Initiative: Introduction • Organisation • Technical Framework
Initiative • „Digital Peer Publishing“ initiated by the Ministry of Research of the German state North-Rhine Westphalia • operator: hbz - public service provider for academic libraries • proximate goal: Support Start-ups & Pick-ups of eJournals • ultimate goal: Fostering innovative forms of web-based, scholarly communication
Some data • Start in 2004 • 13 journals from various disciplines • around 600 reviewed publications • still moderate submission rates, high rejection rates • compound/complex materials • first citations of start-ups observed
Organisation eJournal Authors ! G Editor/Chief Referees CD " Editorial office Readers $ admin. : Editorial Board local _ Institution Ò:Ó techn. Infrastructure … i § Support Licences ] Distribution Publishing Service Structure
Editor in Chief EditorialBoard JMALL Constructions S & P LiLT
Tackling Innovation • Explore transitions from eJournals to repositories • Implement innovative forms of scholarly communication and information management (open review…) • Integrate extra services (PoD…) and useful standards to enhance DiPP services
Services • Hosting and Archiving • powerful and secure Hardware and Software • persistent Identifiers: URN, DOI • open archival format: DocBook XML • preparation for long-term archiving • Production system • individual layout • multilingual • simple editing of contents - WYSIWYG • automatic. article conversion from RTF/LaTeX -> XML -> XHTML/PDF • messaging - Lists/RSS-Feeds
More Services • Distribution • indexing in search engines / databases - EZB, DOAJ, OAISTER • automat. notification of metadata and articles - via OAI-PMH / E-Mail alerts • disciplinary forms for metadata- DDC, PACS etc. • tools and scripts for exact and ‚clean‘ usage statistics– AWstats, Custom (Python) • Workflow systems • Forms, worklists and views for authors, editors and reviewers • scalability - Blind, Double-Blind, Open etc.
Core Components • Mainly Open Source Software • Zope/Plone: Webapplicationserver and CMS • Fedora: Repository • Apache (mod_rewrite): Webserver with virtual hosts • LDAP: Authentication • UpCast: Document transformation • Awstats: Usage Statistics
Plone CMS • Frontend for the repository • Management of editorial content (imprint,...) • Plenty of Products available for... • Newsletter • Blogs • Forum (OpenReview,...) • Workflowengine • I18N Support • Our developments • DiPP Product
Custom Code • Several Plone Products/Plugins • DiPP: Editorial Toolbox, Workflow configuration, Submit- and Metadataforms • PloneFedora: store and edit Data in the Fedorarepository instead of ZODB • Themes: DiPPClassic, DiPPSilver, ... • Statistics:
Editorial Toolbox • New manuscripts, with or without review workflow • Worklists for articles in process • Journal Metadata: Editors, ISSN, Title,... • Tools • User Administration • OpenURL • Usage Statistics • Support: Wiki, Mailinglists, Userguide,...
Document Transformation • Based on MSWord templates: .dot • Styles for Paragraphs and characters • Separation of Structur and Layout • DocBookXML as intermediate format and for Longterm storage • Support for Footnotes, automatic Table of Contents, scalable Images, ... • XHTML and PDF generation: XSLT, dblatex
Distribution • On Publication, Papers are automatically distributed via • RSS, for every interested reader • OAI-PMH, for other databases and repositories, • E-Mail alerts, for some special databases
Outlook • Migrate to a newer Zope and Plone Version • Switch to AlphaFlow, a more flexible Workflowengine • Development of a Peer Review Component • Improve automatic PDF Creation
I n i n i t i a t i v e f o r O p e n A c c e s s e J o u r n a l s Thank you! www.dipp.nrw.de dipp@hbz-nrw.de