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 $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 Traditional Materials Databases Historical Collections E-Books

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

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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