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Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication H. Thomas Hickerson Marcy E. Rosenkrantz David Ruddy Cornell University Library CUL Publishing Efforts • A long and rich history in publishing electronic collections on-line – Making of America http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa – Core Historical Literature of Agriculture http://chla.library.cornell.edu/ – Historical Math Books http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/ • Recent History – – – – Technical Reports http://techreports.library.cornell.edu Euclid http://projecteuclid.org arXiv http://www.arxiv.org DSpace http://dspace.library.cornell.edu Campus Partnership for DSpace • Vision of Robert Cooke, former Dean of Faculty – Employ DSpace to support open access scholarly publishing to reduce costs to libraries • Journals • Books • Faculty Outreach • Economic Studies – Raym Crow. Developing an Institutionally-Funded Publishing Channel: Context and Considerations for Key Issues. – Malcolm Getz. Open-Access Scholarly Publishing In Economic Perspective Internet-First University Press • Press Release Feb. 2004 – http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/Internetfirst.ws.html • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62 – Books first-published and out-of-print – Videos – Student journals and publications • Downloadable catalog • Print-on-demand through Cornell Business Services for bound copies • PDF versions for free downloading Other Communities • • • • • • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/ Cornell University East Asia Papers Cornell University Graduate School Cornell University Library IFUP System Dynamics (in development) Expanded Capabilities for OnLine Publishing • Substantial interest at Cornell • Broad interest Nationally Digital Publishing System Background • DPubS Evolved from Dienst – Architecture, protocol, software (~1995) – NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library • CUL digital collections • Project Euclid development since 2001 – Significant extension of Dienst Basic Design Features • Logically distinct services performed by separate modules • Well-defined and extensible interfaces between modules • Object model that allows hierarchical object structures and multiple document formats Current Use of DPubS • Project Euclid (http://ProjectEuclid.org) – Delivery of proprietary serial literature in math and statistics – 19 publishers, ~33 titles, 11,000 articles • Cornell CS Tech Reports • Several digital library collections Publishing Strengths of DPubS • Allows for flexible presentation, navigation, and delivery of content • Relatively simple content ingest process • Flexible Subscription Service • Modular service architecture makes it easy to extend services and functionality Proposed Enhancements • Generalization work, esp. to User Interface Service • Editorial management services to support peer-review • Enhanced administrative interface and functionality • Print on demand capabilities • Distributed under Open Source license Interoperate with DSpace • Potential tie-in or interoperation with DSpace and other IRs – DPubS Repository Service acting as an interface into DSpace repository • Would require a DSpace repository API • DPubS as a publishing tool laminated on top of DSpace – Using DSpace access control mechanisms in place of Subscription Service Questions and Contacts Tom Hickerson [email protected] Marcy Rosenkrantz [email protected] David Ruddy [email protected] CU-Library partnership in DSpace • • • • History and Vision Internet-First University Press Other Communities DPubS-DSpace links