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Math and Statistics Journals Online
Project Euclid was created as a Mellon Foundation-supported initiative that utilizes mutually beneficial strategies to support both academic libraries and independent publishers of mathematics and statistics journals.
Problem: folks weren’t submitting to the repository. Why not? Speaker noted that part of the problem was the term “repository” which suggests by connotation that this is the “end” for this document, a resting place. Instead, the repository needs to be seen as a dynamic searchable database eager for more contributions. How to accomplish that?
DPubS: an open source electronic publishing system which now contains 35,000 articles. A small subscription-based service draws in the revenue that allows much of the material, 2/3, to be available free of charge.
Interface
They recently re-designed the User Interface (UI) so that you can house/host one of your own collections. You use the same engine but can give the repository the look and feel of your library or your organization. For example, Pennsylvania History
Positioning the tool
David Ruddy spoke about DPubS being viewed as an application layer on top of your own Institutional Repository. For example, the DPubS repository service functions as an API on top of Fedora or DSpace.
Merging question: what to do with the content available from conference proceedings.
Note: the group is eager for partners and beta testers.
Posted by kbennett at October 19, 2005 01:47 PM
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