[BOAI] PEER-Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers & repository managers

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the PEER Partners, via the 
LIS-e-Resources list.  --Peter Suber.]


News release

15 April 2009

PEER ­ Draft report on the provision of usage 
data and manuscript deposit procedures for 
publishers and repository managers now available at
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/

PEER is a pioneering collaboration between 
publishers, repositories and the research 
community, which aims to investigate the effects 
of the large-scale deposit (so called Green Open 
Access) on user access, author visibility, 
journal viability and the broader European 
research environment. The project will run until 
2011, during which time over 50,000 European 
stage-2 (accepted) manuscripts from up to 300 
journals will become available for archiving.

This draft report on the provision of usage data 
and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers 
and repository managers sets out to establish a 
workflow for depo¬siting stage-2 outputs in and 
harvesting logfiles from designated repositories 
to facilitate the research required for PEER.

To ensure that sufficient content is made 
avail¬able as a research sample to validate the 
research process, participating publishers have 
agreed to collectively deposit 50% of the outputs 
on behalf of the authors. For the other 50%, 
publishers will invite the authors to self- 
archive their current manuscripts, and any 
previous manuscripts from participating journals. 
In addition to workflow, the report identifies 
the preferred file formats for full text and 
metadata to be deposited by participating 
publishers as well as the preferred and mandatory metadata elements.

Issues of relevance to repositories are also 
addressed, including the proposal to unify the 
ingestion services either based on format used or 
protocols such as OAI-PMH or SWORD, as well as 
procedures for the provision of usage data.

An updated version of this draft report will be 
made available by PEER later this year.

For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer at stm-assoc.org

PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.

PEER Partners: International Association of 
Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers 
(STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen 
State and University Library, the Max Planck 
Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld
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