PEER invites tenders for Economic Research

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

News release

10 September 2009

PEER- Invitation to tender for Economic Research now available
Available at http://www.peerproject.eu/research_tenders/

PEER is building an Observatory to gather evidence about the 
impact of large scale systematic archiving of stage-two 
(accepted) manuscripts (so called Green Open Access). The final 
strand of research on the economics of deposit and access is now 
being tendered: What can be said about the costs of depositing of 
stage-two outputs? How do different methods of deposit to 
repositories compare for cost? How do different methods of access 
to repositories and journals compare for cost? What can be said 
about the cost to scholars as well as to repositories and/or 
libraries? What is the (likely) economic impact on publishers?

The Objectives of the economics research are to:

--  Investigate the cost of the large-scale deposit of stage-two 
research outputs (including the economic efficiency or cost of 
the process of deposit).
--  Understand the costs incurred by participating publishers and 
repositories (of the PEER Project).
--  Understand and compare access costs at journals and 
repositories.
--  Understand, principally, for the deposit of so-called Stage 2 
manuscripts the costs.
--  Analyze the overall effects of large-scale deposit (Green OA) 
on the economics of scholarly communication.

Tenders must be received by the Max Planck Digital Library by 
17:00 on Thursday 29 October 2009

For information on the ongoing behavioural and usage research, 
please see the press release of 25 August 2009:
http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/pressreleases/20090825_PEER_research-teams.pdf

The PEER project has nominated a Research Oversight Group:
--  Justus Haucap, Professor and Director of Duesseldorf 
Institute for Competition Economics. Prof. Haucap chairs the 
German Monopolies Commission;
--  Henk Moed, Senior researcher at the Centre for Science and 
Technology Studies, Leiden University. Dr. Moed has been the 
recipient of the Derek de Solla Price Award;
--  Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Sciences, University 
of Tennessee. Prof. Tenopir has received the International 
Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.

For enquiries regarding the PEER Observatory, please contact 
Chris Armbruster, Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck Society. 
Email: armbruster@mpdl.mpg.de

About PEER:
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.

Further information on PEER, visit the wbsite: www.peerproject.eu
For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer@stm-assoc.org

PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.

PEER Partners: The International Association of Scientific, 
Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science 
Foundation, Goettingen State and University Library, the Max 
Planck Society and INRIA collaborate on PEER, supported by the 
SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld, which contribute the 
expertise of the EU-funded DRIVER project. Significant about the 
PEER project is the cooperation of the various stakeholders in 
the scholarly publishing cycle without prejudice

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 F=F6rderung der 
Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG); HAL, Institut National de Recherche en 
Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); Goettingen State and 
University Library (UGOE); BiPrints, Universitaet Bielefeld 
(UNIBI); Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; University 
Library of Debrecen, Hungary
Long-term preservation service: Koninklijke Bibliotheek 
(Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland)

Janice E. Kuta
Director of Marketing & Membership
International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical 
Publishers