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

DPubS Digital 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.

DPubS Partners Cornell University Library

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

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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

Evolution of DPubS Software Origins in Cornell Computer Science department, mid-90s –NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library ( ) Project Euclid development, DPubS development project,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

DPubS Development Partners Australian National University Universität Bielefeld University of Kansas University of Utah

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

Who Will Use DPubS? University Presses

Who Will Use DPubS? Societies

Who Will Use DPubS? Libraries

Who Will Use DPubS? Institutional Repositories

Who will use DPubS? Libraries as Service Providers

How Will DPubS Be Used? Journal Publication

How Will DPubS Be Used? Online Books

How Will DPubS Be Used? Grey Literature

How Will DPubS Be Used? Conference Proceedings

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