<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from </font></font>
<span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Barbara</span> <font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Bayer-Schur. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>The following should be of interest. Please distribute among your own<br>
networks.<br>
Regards, Barbara Bayer-Schur<br>
PEER Project<br>
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PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research<br>
News release<br>
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19 June 2012<br>
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PEER Usage Research Reports and Final Project report available at<br>
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/" target="_blank">http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/</a><br>
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Following the recent successful End of Project Results Conference, the<br>
following final reports from PEER are now available for download from the<br>
PEER website:<br>
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* D5.2 PEER Usage study - Descriptive statistics for the period March to<br>
August 2011<br>
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* D5.3 PEER Usage study - Randomised controlled trial results<br>
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* D9.13 Final report<br>
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The usage research studies were undertaken by CIBER Research Ltd to measure<br>
the effect of exposing accepted manuscripts (following peer review) in<br>
repositories on downloads of the version of record at publisher platforms.<br>
The study is the largest of its kind to date, involving over 18,000<br>
manuscripts.<br>
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The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme, aimed to<br>
investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors'<br>
final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two<br>
research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability,<br>
as well as on the broader ecology of European research.<br>
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All reports from the project including 'End of Project Statements by the PEER<br>
Executive Partners - Reflections on Open Access Scenarios' are available to<br>
download from <a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/" target="_blank">http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/</a>.<br>
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Presentations made during the End of Project Conference are available at:<br>
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/" target="_blank">http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/</a><br>
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For any enquiries relating to PEER, please contact Julia Wallace, Project<br>
Manager of PEER at <a href="mailto:wallace@stm-assoc.org">wallace@stm-assoc.org</a><br>
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About PEER:<br>
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC<br>
eContentplus programme, is investigating the effects of the large-scale,<br>
systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called<br>
Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author<br>
visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of<br>
European research. The project is a collaboration between publishers,<br>
repositories and researchers and runs from September 2008 to May 2012<br>
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For further information on PEER, visit the website:<br>
<a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.peerproject.eu/</a><br>
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PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical<br>
Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and<br>
University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and<br>
University of Bielefeld<br>
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STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge<br>
University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing<br>
Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer;<br>
Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell<br>
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PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL),<br>
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG); HAL,<br>
CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique<br>
(Inria); Göttingen University/ Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE);<br>
SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for<br>
the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library<br>
of Debrecen (ULD)<br>
Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek<br>
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Dr. Barbara Bayer-Schur<br>
DH Forschungsverbund Niedersachsen<br>
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities<br>
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen<br>
Papendiek 16<br>
37073 Göttingen<br>
<a href="mailto:bbayer-schur@gcdh.de">bbayer-schur@gcdh.de</a><br>
Tel. 0551-39-20475<br><br></div>