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Penn State and DPubS Coalition for Networked Information Nancy L. Eaton

Penn State and DPubS Coalition for Networked Information Nancy L. Eaton Dean of University Libraries December 2005. A New Century Begins. 82,000 students 6,500 faculty Penn State University Libraries: 37 libraries at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth.

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Penn State and DPubS Coalition for Networked Information Nancy L. Eaton

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  1. Penn State and DPubS Coalition for Networked Information Nancy L. Eaton Dean of University Libraries December 2005

  2. A New Century Begins • 82,000 students • 6,500 faculty • Penn State University Libraries: 37 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 • One collection: loans within Penn State equal to national ILL • High priority for online access from any location • Use of e-journals & e-books growing • Desktop delivery increasing • Current inflation not supportable Historical Collections Databases

  5. Shifting demand

  6. Inflation projections

  7. Why DPubS at Penn State? • Need at Penn State for content independent of location • Emergence of new forms of scholarly communications in response to inflation • Need to develop new tools to help faculty experiment with new modes of scholarly communications • Need to provide new options where traditional publishers are withdrawing, e.g. Romance Studies, proceedings

  8. Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing • A new partnership between the University Libraries and the Penn State Press • Established March 2005 • Mission is to leverage the expertise & technologies of both organizations and to use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication at Penn State and beyond

  9. Goals of the ODSP • Shared network environment • Shared software platforms (e.g. ContentDM, Olive, DPubS) • E-preservation standards • Repository architectures • Selective joint imprints • Shared digitization technologies • Shared marketing & editing capabilities • New business models

  10. Penn State’s Role in DPubS • Partner with Cornell in specifications • 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

  11. 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 • Marketing, Developing User Base

  12. 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

  13. DPubS at Penn State

  14. DPubS at Penn State

  15. DPubS at Penn State

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

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