1 Penn State and DPubS Educause 2005 Eric G Ferrin Senior Director Digital Library Technologies October 19, 2005

2 Pattee Library and Paterno Library: A New Century Begins Ranked 13th in North America 4.5 million volumes Penn State University Libraries comprises 36 libraries at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth

3 Penn State University Libraries

4 Collections $16 million/year for collections and electronic resources Added 1 million volumes since % spent on online resources Access to remote collections as important as local collections Traditional Materials Databases Historical Collections E-Books

5 Why DPubS at Penn State? Increasing cost of providing scholarly information to the research community

6 Shifting Budget Resources

7 Random STM Journal Renewals Print Renewal Costs Percentage +/- STM Journal Years Years Tetrahedron$5,172$9,862$14,345 45%177% Journal of applied polymer science$1,295$8,395$14,640 74%1030% Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research$6,988$13,785$18,228 32%161% Brain Research$5,699$15,428$20,271 31%256% Nuclear physics$8,380$18,102$24,057 33%187% Zahlenwerte und funktionen aus naturwissenschaften und technik$14,311$23,705$89, %529%

8 Collection budget projection

9 Why DPubS at Penn State? Need to make emerging research more easily accessible

10 Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing Partnership between: University Libraries Reports to the Provost Penn State Press Reports to the VP for Research

11 Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing Use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication -- At Penn State and beyond

12 Goals of the ODSP Move existing print journals and monographs to a digital environment Provide Print On Demand for appropriate paper copies Give access to library collections too delicate to handle

13 Penn State’s Role in DPubS Alpha test of DPubS “Open Source” installation procedures Installed on RedHat Linux: Sept 2005 Installed on Solaris 10: Oct 2005 Alpha test of DPubS “Open Source” production and maintenance Loaded Pennsylvania History: Oct 2005

14 Penn State’s Role in DPubS Improve DPubS “Open Source” installation time Verify prerequisite software installation Streamline configuration and maintenance of system information Improve installation documentation Assist in building an “open source” DPubS Licensing, Maintenance, User Base

15 Penn State’s Role in DPubS Establish a Penn State DPubS production environment Pennsylvania History: Nov 2005 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: End of 2005 Conference Proceedings

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19 The Future Encourage the adoption of an open source publication management system Use DPubS to provide a general purpose publishing platform for scholarly literature in diverse fields