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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the PEER Partners, via the LIS-e-Resources
list. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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News release<br><br>
15 April 2009<br><br>
PEER Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit
procedures for publishers and repository managers now available at <br>
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/<br><br>
</a>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
An updated version of this draft report will be made available by PEER
later this year.<br><br>
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), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen
State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF
Foundation and University of Bielefeld<br>
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