PEER - Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers & repository managers

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

News release

15 April 2009

PEER - Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript 
deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers 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.

This draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript 
deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers sets 
out to establish a workflow for depositing stage-2 outputs in and 
harvesting logfiles from designated repositories to facilitate 
the research required for PEER.

To ensure that sufficient content is made available as a research 
sample to validate the research process, participating publishers 
have agreed to collectively deposit 50% of the outputs on behalf 
of the authors. For the other 50%, publishers will invite the 
authors to self-archive their current manuscripts, and any 
previous manuscripts from participating journals. In addition to 
workflow, the report identifies the preferred file formats for 
full text and metadata to be deposited by participating 
publishers as well as the preferred and mandatory metadata 
elements.

Issues of relevance to repositories are also addressed, including 
the proposal to unify the ingestion services either based on 
format used or protocols such as OAI-PMH or SWORD, as well as 
procedures for the provision of usage data.

An updated version of this draft report will be made available by 
PEER later this year.

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

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