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Penn Stateand DPubS

Coalition for Networked Information

Nancy L. EatonDean of University Libraries December 2005

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A New Century Begins

82,000 students

6,500 faculty

Penn State University

Libraries: 37 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

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

Databases Historical Collections

E-Books

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Shifting demandShifting Budget Resources

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E Resources 21.9% 39.3% 48.0%

Serials 42.1% 26.9% 21.7%

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Inflation projections

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Projected Revenues vs. Price Increases 2005-2015

Serials Budget Total Collections Budget

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Marketing, Developing 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 at Penn State to provide a general purpose

e-publishing platform for scholarly literature in diverse fields