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DPubS: An Open Source Electronic Publishing System

DPubS is an electronic publishing application allowing publishers to manage scholarly communications, users to access content, and enables open access and subscription models. Developed in partnership with Cornell University Library.

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DPubS: An Open Source Electronic Publishing System

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  1. DPubS:An Open Source Electronic Publishing System Sarah E. Thomas Cornell University Library CNI December 2005

  2. DPubSDigital Publishing System Funded through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, DPubS is an electronic publishing application that enables…. publishers to organize, manage, present, and deliver both open access and subscription controlled scholarly communications; and users to discover, navigate, and access scholarly content.

  3. DPubS Partners Cornell University Library

  4. Transformation of Scholarly Communication • Online dissemination • Open Access • Disciplinary Repositories • Institutional Repositories • New forms of scholarship • Economic pressures

  5. DPubS Family Tree

  6. Functionality Developed for Euclid • Full-text format neutral • Full-text indexing • Flexible access control options for publishers • Open Access • Society members • E-Commerce (pay-per-view) • OAI 2.0 compliance • Usage statistics for subscribers/publishers • Subscription • Reference linking • DOI registration • Referral Service

  7. Evolution of DPubS Software • Origins in Cornell Computer Science department, mid-90s • NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (1995-98) • Project Euclid development, 2000-2003 • DPubS development project, 2004-2006

  8. DPubS development • Generalize and enhance the Euclid software and release as Open Source • Funding period: 2004-2006 • Development agenda: • Generalize the system • Improve administrative interfaces • Add editorial management tools • Facilitate interoperability with institutional repositories, such as Fedora and DSpace

  9. Interoperate with institutional repository systems • Identified IRs: DSpace, Fedora • DPubS becomes an application layer on top of IR • DPubS Repository Service functions as an API to Institutional Repository

  10. Generalization of system • Redesigned User Interface Service • Move UI customization out of core code • UI now is now xml/xslt driven • Employ a more abstract, and configurable, definition of… • Object types (document structures) • Metadata types • Allow for “collections”: • Grouping mechanism; may contain publications or other collections

  11. Technical requirements • Perl, mod_perl, apache, other common OS tools • Hardware: Sun and Intel boxes • OS: Sun Solaris (9, 10), Linux

  12. Editorial management services • Support manuscript management and peer review activities • Manuscript submission • Reviewing • Document tracking • Organization of publications • Publishing content (“making public”)

  13. DPubs Features • Focused distribution & controlled access • Subscription control • Support for multiple pricing models • Reference linking capabilities • Forward and backward linking • DOI registration at Cross Ref • Distinctive presentation styles and branding • Support for enhanced resource discovery

  14. DPubS in the Months Ahead • Work with development partners (Dec. ’05-Apr. ’06) • Launch code as Open Source (Apr- Dec ’06) • Recruit DPubS users (Nov. ’05-Dec. ’06) • Hold DPubS Users Meeting (June-Sept. ’06)

  15. DPubS Development Partners • Australian National University • Universität Bielefeld • University of Kansas • University of Utah

  16. DPubS Corporate Sponsor • Sun Microsystems • Sun’s Education Commons Open Source Community

  17. Who Will Use DPubS?University Presses

  18. Who Will Use DPubS?Societies

  19. Who Will Use DPubS?Libraries

  20. Who Will Use DPubS?Institutional Repositories

  21. Who will use DPubS?Libraries as Service Providers

  22. How Will DPubS Be Used?Journal Publication

  23. How Will DPubS Be Used?Online Books

  24. How Will DPubS Be Used?Grey Literature

  25. How Will DPubS Be Used?Conference Proceedings

  26. DPubS • http://dpubs.org • dwr4@cornell.edu • Center for Innovative Publishing • http://cip.cornell.edu

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