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Penn State and DPubS Educause 2006 Eric G Ferrin Senior Director Digital Library Technologies October 19, 2005. Pattee Library and Paterno Library: A New Century Begins. Ranked 13th in North America 4.5 million volumes
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Penn State and DPubS Educause 2006 Eric G Ferrin Senior Director Digital Library Technologies October 19, 2005
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
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
Why DPubS at Penn State? • Increasing cost of providing scholarly information to the research community
Why DPubS at Penn State? • Need to make emerging research more easily accessible
Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing • Partnership between: • University Libraries • Reports to the Provost • Penn State Press • Reports to the VP for Research
Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing • Use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication • -- At Penn State and beyond
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
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
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
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
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