PEER - Guidelines for publishers and repositories now available

["Janice Kuta" <kuta@stm-assoc.org>]

News release

4 June 2009

PEER -- Guidelines for publishers and repository managers on 
deposit, assisted deposit and self-archiving now available at 
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/

PEER is a pioneering collaboration between publishers, 
repositories and the research community, which aims to 
investigate the effects of the large-scale deposit (so called 
Green Open Access) on user access, author visibility, journal 
viability and the broader European research environment. The 
project will run until 2011, during which time over 50,000 
European stage-2 (accepted) manuscripts from up to 300 journals 
will become available for archiving.

Guidelines documenting the procedures for publisher deposit and 
for subsequent transfer to participating PEER repositories are 
presented in this document following extensive consultation with 
both target groups within PEER.

An author helpdesk for the project is being established and will 
shortly be made available via the PEER website. This will serve 
as the major information point for EU based authors of articles 
in participating PEER journals who wish to self-archive their 
accepted manuscripts after receiving an invitation to do so.

The report sets out a major advance in repository practice in the 
use of the SWORD protocol which allows application-level deposit 
of material into repositories. It is presented as a cohesive 
sub-report (Appendix B), and it is expected that this may become 
a ready reference tool in its own right.

The Guidelines set out in this document should be read in 
conjunction with "D2.1 Draft report on the provision of usage 
data and manuscript procedures for publishers and repository 
managers" also available at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/.

For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer@stm-assoc.org

PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.

PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical 
and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, 
Goettingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, 
INRIA, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld

STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; 
Cambridge University Press; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature 
Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage 
Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell

PEER repositories: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der 
Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG); HAL, Institut National de Recherche en 
Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); Goettingen State and 
University Library (UGOE); BiPrints, Universit=E4t Bielefeld 
(UNIBI); Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; University 
Library of Debrecen, Hungary

Janice E. Kuta
Director of Marketing & Membership
International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical 
Publishers
E-mail: kuta@stm-assoc.org
Tel: 212-533-0832
Fax: 212-420-8407
www.stm-assoc.org