1. Coalition for Networked Information
Penn State
and DPubS
Coalition for Networked Information
Nancy L. Eaton
Dean of University Libraries
December 2005

2. A New Century Begins 82,000 students 6,500 faculty
Penn State University Libraries: 37 libraries
at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth

3. Penn State University Libraries

4. Collections $16 million/year for collections and electronic resources
One collection: loans
within Penn State
equal to national ILL
High priority for online
access from any location
Use of e-journals
& e-books growing
Desktop delivery
increasing
Current inflation
not supportable
Traditional Materials
E-Books
Historical Collections
Databases

5. Shifting demand

6. Inflation projections

7. Why DPubS at Penn State?
Need at Penn State for content independent of location
Emergence of new forms of scholarly communications in response to inflation
Need to develop new tools to help faculty experiment with new modes of scholarly communications
Need to provide new options where traditional publishers are withdrawing, e.g. Romance Studies, proceedings

8. Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing
A new partnership between the University Libraries and the Penn State Press
Established March 2005
Mission is to leverage the expertise & technologies of both organizations and to use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication at Penn State and beyond

9. Goals of the ODSP Shared network environment
Shared software platforms (e.g. ContentDM, Olive, DPubS)
E-preservation standards
Repository architectures
Selective joint imprints
Shared digitization technologies
Shared marketing & editing capabilities
New business models

10. Penn State’s Role in DPubS
Partner with Cornell in specifications
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

11. 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
Marketing, Developing User Base

12. 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

13. DPubS at Penn State

14. DPubS at Penn State

15. DPubS at Penn State

16. The Future
Encourage the adoption of an open source publication management system
Use DPubS at Penn State to provide a general purpose
e-publishing platform for scholarly literature in diverse fields