„„DiPP – An Open DiPP – An Open Access Initiative for Access Initiative for

Scholarly Scholarly Communication“ Communication“

PKP Scholarly Publishing PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007Conference 2007

Vancouver, Canada Vancouver, Canada

Cordula Nötzelmann & Peter ReimerCordula Nötzelmann & Peter Reimer

2007/07/122007/07/12

I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n

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Contents

The Initiative: Introduction Organisation Technical Framework

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„Digital Peer Publishing“ initiated by the Ministry of Research of the German state North-Rhine Westphalia

proximate goal: Support Start-ups & Pick-ups of eJournals

Initiative

ultimate goal: Fostering innovative forms of web-based, scholarly communication

operator: hbz - public service provider for academic libraries

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Start in 2004

13 journals from various disciplines

around 600 reviewed publications

still moderate submission rates, high rejection rates

compound/complex materials

first citations of start-ups observed

Some data

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Organisation

Publishing Service Structure

Authors

Referees

Editorial Board

Readers

Editor/Chief

Editorial office

admin.

eJournal

Institution

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local

techn. Infrastructure

Support§Licences

Distribution

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O r g a n i s a t i o n

P u b l i s h i n g S e r v i c e S t r u c t u r e

A u t h o r s

R e f e r e e s

E d i t o r i a l B o a r d

R e a d e r s

E d i t o r / C h i e f

E d i t o r i a l o ffi c e

a d m i n .

e J o u r n a l

I n s t i t u t i o n

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l o c a l

t e c h n . I n f r a s t r u c t u r e

S u p p o r t§L i c e n c e s

D i s t r i b u t i o n

S & P

LiLT

JMALLConstructions

Editor in Chief

Editorial Board

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Explore transitions from eJournals to repositories

Implement innovative forms of scholarly communication and information management (open review…)

Integrate extra services (PoD…) and useful standards to enhance DiPP services

Tackling Innovation

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Technical Framework

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Services

Hosting and Archiving powerful and secure Hardware and Software persistent Identifiers: URN, DOI open archival format: DocBook XML preparation for long-term archiving

Production system individual layout multilingual simple editing of contents - WYSIWYG automatic. article conversion from RTF/LaTeX ->

XML -> XHTML/PDF messaging - Lists/RSS-Feeds

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More Services

Distribution indexing in search engines / databases - EZB,

DOAJ, OAISTER automat. notification of metadata and articles - via

OAI-PMH / E-Mail alerts disciplinary forms for metadata- DDC, PACS etc. tools and scripts for exact and ‚clean‘ usage

statistics– AWstats, Custom (Python) Workflow systems

Forms, worklists and views for authors, editors and reviewers

scalability - Blind, Double-Blind, Open etc.

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Core Components

Mainly Open Source Software Zope/Plone: Webapplicationserver and CMS Fedora: Repository Apache (mod_rewrite): Webserver with virtual

hosts LDAP: Authentication UpCast: Document transformation Awstats: Usage Statistics

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Architecture

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Plone CMS

Frontend for the repository Management of editorial content (imprint,...) Plenty of Products available for...

Newsletter Blogs Forum (OpenReview,...) Workflowengine I18N Support

Our developments DiPP Product

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Custom Code

Several Plone Products/Plugins DiPP: Editorial Toolbox, Workflow configuration,

Submit- and Metadataforms PloneFedora: store and edit Data in the

Fedorarepository instead of ZODB Themes: DiPPClassic, DiPPSilver, ... Statistics:

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Editorial Toolbox

New manuscripts, with or without review workflow

Worklists for articles in process Journal Metadata: Editors, ISSN,

Title,... Tools

User Administration OpenURL Usage Statistics

Support: Wiki, Mailinglists, Userguide,...

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Custom Content Types

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Publication Workflow (OpenFlow)

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WYSIWYG Editing of all content

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Layout I: JVRB

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Layout II: archimaera

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Layout III: Logistics Journal

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Document Transformation

Based on MSWord templates: .dot

Styles for Paragraphs and characters

Separation of Structur and Layout

DocBookXML as intermediate format and for Longterm storage

Support for Footnotes, automatic Table of Contents, scalable Images, ...

XHTML and PDF generation: XSLT, dblatex

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Distribution

On Publication, Papers are automatically distributed via

RSS, for every interested reader OAI-PMH, for other databases and repositories, E-Mail alerts, for some special databases

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Outlook

Migrate to a newer Zope and Plone Version Switch to AlphaFlow, a more flexible

Workflowengine Development of a Peer Review Component Improve automatic PDF Creation

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