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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the PEER Project. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
<br>
News release<br><br>
23 February 2009<br><br>
PEER website now live at
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.peerproject.eu</a> <br><br>
PEER is a pioneering collaboration between publishers, repositories and
the research <br>
community, which aims to investigate the effects of the large-scale
deposit (so called Green <br>
Open Access) on user access, author visibility, journal viability and the
broader European <br>
research environment.<br><br>
The project will run until 2011, during which time over 50,000 European
stage two <br>
(accepted) manuscripts from up to 300 journals will become available for
archiving.<br><br>
The PEER website will serve the three key stakeholder groups of
publishers, repository/ <br>
library community and researchers (both as authors and readers), and will
also provide <br>
information accessible to the general public.<br><br>
Content will include news updates, as well as reports on various aspects
of the project as <br>
PEER progresses.<br><br>
A presentation providing an introduction to PEER is available on the
website:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/presentations/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.peerproject.eu/presentations/<br><br>
<br><br>
</a>For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail:
peer@stm-assoc.org<br><br>
PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.<br><br>
PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and
Medical Publishers (STM), <br>
the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library,
the Max Planck <br>
Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld<br>
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