[EAS]DSpace & e-Publishing

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Subject:   DSpace & e-Publishing

(from CIT INFOBITS -- December 2002)
 <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/>

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MIT LAUNCHES DIGITAL REPOSITORY

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched DSpace, an
institutional digital repository "that captures, preserves and
communicates the intellectual output [preprints, technical reports,
working papers, conference papers, images] of MIT's faculty and
researchers." 

DSpace is organized by "communities": academic departments,
laboratories, and research centers. Communities can develop their own
policies of what is included in the repository and who has access to
the materials. At this time, the following communities have been
established:

	-- Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
	-- Department of Ocean Engineering
	-- Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
	-- MIT Press Out of Print Books (MIT-only access)
	-- Sloan School of Management

Check out DSpace at http://www.dspace.org/

For more information about DSpace and similar projects, see:

"'Superarchives' Could Hold All Scholarly Output" by Jeffrey R. Young
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, July 5, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm

"College Archives 'Dig' Deeper" by Kendra Mayfield
WIRED NEWS, August 3, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54229,00.html

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JOURNAL BOYCOTT GROUP ANNOUNCES ITS NEW PUBLIC JOURNALS

A group of scholars who had urged a boycott of expensive scientific
journals have formed the Public Library of Science. PLoS is a
non-profit organization of scientists "committed to making the world's
scientific and medical literature a public resource." PLoS announced
that they will publish two new online scholarly journals -- PUBLIC
LIBRARY OF SCIENCE BIOLOGY and PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE MEDICINE --
in the second half of 2003. The PLoS journals will be "controlled and
run by scientists, and will retain all of the important features of
scientific journals, including rigorous peer-review and high editorial
and production standards, but will employ a new publishing model that
will allow PLoS to make all published works immediately available
online, with no charges for access or restrictions on subsequent
redistribution or use." For more information, see the PLoS website at
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

For past Infobits articles on the journal boycott, see:

"Online Debate on Scholarly Publishing"
CIT Infobits, April 2001
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitapr01.html#1

"Scholarly Journal Boycott a Bust"
CIT Infobits, May 2002
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmay02.html#4

Also see:

"Scientists Plan 2 Online Journals to Make Articles Available 'Freely
and Universally'" by Andrea L. Foster
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, December 18, 2002 
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002121801t.htm

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS TAKES OVER JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

The University of Michigan has published the JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC
PUBLISHING (JEP) since 1995. JEP will be on hiatus until spring when
it will be taken over by Columbia University Press and will feature a
new design, augmented content, and enhanced search capabilities. All
archives of the journal will be moved to Columbia, and calls to the
old URL addresses will be automatically redirected to JEP's new home
at Columbia.

Articles in the current issue include:

"What Are the Alternatives to Peer Review? Quality Control in Scholarly
	Publishing on the Web" by William Y. Arms

"Writing Electronically: The Effects of Computers on Traditional
	Writing" by Sharmila Pixy Ferris

"Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild
	Model" by Rob Kling, Lisa Spector, and Geoff McKim

Journal of Electronic
Publishing [ISSN 1080-2711] is available online at no cost at its
current address of http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

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