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Penn Stateand DPubS

Educause 2006

Eric G FerrinSenior Director Digital Library TechnologiesOctober 19, 2005

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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

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Penn State University Libraries

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Collections

$16 million/year for collections and electronic resources

Added 1 million volumes since 1997

25% spent on online resources

Access to remote collections as important as local collections

Traditional Materials

Databases Historical Collections

E-Books

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Why DPubS at Penn State?

Increasing cost of providing scholarly information to the research community

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Why DPubS at Penn State?

Need to make emerging research more easily accessible

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Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing

Partnership between: University Libraries

Reports to the Provost Penn State Press

Reports to the VP for Research

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Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing

Use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication -- At Penn State and

beyond

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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

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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

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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

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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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DPubS at Penn State

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DPubS at Penn State

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DPubS at Penn State

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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