1. DPubS: An Open Source Electronic Publishing System
Sarah E. Thomas
Cornell University Library
CNI
December 2005

2. DPubS Digital Publishing System
Funded through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, DPubS is an electronic publishing application that enables….
publishers to organize, manage, present, and deliver both open access and subscription controlled scholarly communications; and
users to discover, navigate, and access scholarly content.

3. DPubS Partners
Cornell University Library

4. Transformation of Scholarly Communication
Online dissemination
Open Access
Disciplinary Repositories
Institutional Repositories
New forms of scholarship
Economic pressures

5. DPubS Family Tree

8. Functionality Developed for Euclid
Full-text format neutral
Full-text indexing
Flexible access control options for publishers
Open Access
Society members
E-Commerce (pay-per-view)
OAI 2.0 compliance
Usage statistics for subscribers/publishers
Subscription
Reference linking
DOI registration
Referral Service

9. Evolution of DPubS Software
Origins in Cornell Computer Science department, mid-90s
NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library ( )
Project Euclid development,
DPubS development project,

10. DPubS development
Generalize and enhance the Euclid software and release as Open Source
Funding period:
Development agenda:
Generalize the system
Improve administrative interfaces
Add editorial management tools
Facilitate interoperability with institutional repositories, such as Fedora and DSpace

11. Interoperate with institutional repository systems
Identified IRs: DSpace, Fedora
DPubS becomes an application layer on top of IR
DPubS Repository Service functions as an API to Institutional Repository

12. Generalization of system
Redesigned User Interface Service
Move UI customization out of core code
UI now is now xml/xslt driven
Employ a more abstract, and configurable, definition of…
Object types (document structures)
Metadata types
Allow for “collections”:
Grouping mechanism; may contain publications or other collections

13. Technical requirements
Perl, mod_perl, apache, other common OS tools
Hardware: Sun and Intel boxes
OS: Sun Solaris (9, 10), Linux

14. Editorial management services
Support manuscript management and peer review activities
Manuscript submission
Reviewing
Document tracking
Organization of publications
Publishing content (“making public”)

15. DPubs Features Focused distribution & controlled access
Subscription control
Support for multiple pricing models
Reference linking capabilities
Forward and backward linking
DOI registration at Cross Ref
Distinctive presentation styles and branding
Support for enhanced resource discovery
Publication can be limited to defined audiences such as subscribers, org. members, conference attendees.
Subscription- can set terms and duration of access
Backward linking useful for article corrections
Resource discovery; working with Google to establish common protocols to improve retrieval

16. DPubS in the Months Ahead
Work with development partners (Dec. ’05-Apr. ’06)
Launch code as Open Source (Apr- Dec ’06)
Recruit DPubS users (Nov. ’05-Dec. ’06)
Hold DPubS Users Meeting (June-Sept. ’06)

17. DPubS Development Partners
Australian National University
Universität Bielefeld
University of Kansas
University of Utah

18. DPubS Corporate Sponsor
Sun Microsystems
Sun’s Education Commons Open Source Community

19. Who Will Use DPubS? University Presses

20. Who Will Use DPubS? Societies

21. Who Will Use DPubS? Libraries

22. Who Will Use DPubS? Institutional Repositories

23. Who will use DPubS? Libraries as Service Providers

24. How Will DPubS Be Used? Journal Publication

25. How Will DPubS Be Used? Online Books

26. How Will DPubS Be Used? Grey Literature

27. How Will DPubS Be Used? Conference Proceedings

29. http://dpubs.org http://cip.cornell.edu DPubS
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