Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication

1. Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication H. Thomas Hickerson Marcy E. Rosenkrantz David Ruddy Cornell University Library

2. CUL Publishing Efforts • A long and rich history in publishing electronic collections on-line • Making of America http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa • Core Historical Literature of Agriculture http://chla.library.cornell.edu/ • Historical Math Books http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/ • Recent History • Technical Reports http://techreports.library.cornell.edu • Euclid http://projecteuclid.org • arXiv http://www.arxiv.org • DSpace http://dspace.library.cornell.edu

3. Campus Partnership for DSpace • Vision of Robert Cooke, former Dean of Faculty • Employ DSpace to support open access scholarly publishing to reduce costs to libraries • Journals • Books • Faculty Outreach • Economic Studies • Raym Crow. Developing an Institutionally-Funded Publishing Channel: Context and Considerations for Key Issues. • Malcolm Getz. Open-Access Scholarly Publishing In Economic Perspective

4. Internet-First University Press • Press Release Feb. 2004 • http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/Internet-first.ws.html • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62 • Books first-published and out-of-print • Videos • Student journals and publications • Downloadable catalog • Print-on-demand through Cornell Business Services for bound copies • PDF versions for free downloading

5. Other Communities • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/ • Cornell University East Asia Papers • Cornell University Graduate School • Cornell University Library • IFUP • System Dynamics (in development)

6. Expanded Capabilities for On-Line Publishing • Substantial interest at Cornell • Broad interest Nationally

7. Digital Publishing System Background • DPubS Evolved from Dienst • Architecture, protocol, software (~1995) • NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library • CUL digital collections • Project Euclid development since 2001 • Significant extension of Dienst

8. Basic Design Features • Logically distinct services performed by separate modules • Well-defined and extensible interfaces between modules • Object model that allows hierarchical object structures and multiple document formats

9. Current Use of DPubS • Project Euclid (http://ProjectEuclid.org) • Delivery of proprietary serial literature in math and statistics • 19 publishers, ~33 titles, 11,000 articles • Cornell CS Tech Reports • Several digital library collections

10. Publishing Strengths of DPubS • Allows for flexible presentation, navigation, and delivery of content • Relatively simple content ingest process • Flexible Subscription Service • Modular service architecture makes it easy to extend services and functionality

11. Proposed Enhancements • Generalization work, esp. to User Interface Service • Editorial management services to support peer-review • Enhanced administrative interface and functionality • Print on demand capabilities • Distributed under Open Source license

12. Interoperate with DSpace • Potential tie-in or interoperation with DSpace and other IRs • DPubS Repository Service acting as an interface into DSpace repository • Would require a DSpace repository API • DPubS as a publishing tool laminated on top of DSpace • Using DSpace access control mechanisms in place of Subscription Service

13. Questions and Contacts Tom Hickerson hth2@cornell.edu Marcy Rosenkrantz mr41@cornell.edu David Ruddy dwr4@cornell.edu

15. CU-Library partnership in DSpace • History and Vision • Internet-First University Press • Other Communities • DPubS-DSpace links