Penn State and DPubS Educause 2006 Eric G Ferrin Senior Director Digital Library Technologies
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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
