Terry Ehling, The Development of an Open Source Publishing System at Cornell and Penn State Universities, ARL Bimonthly Report, December 2004. Excerpt: 'Five years ago, the Cornell University Library submitted a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the support of the design and deployment of a mechanism and environment for the online distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. The resulting Project Euclid was funded in 2000 and launched as a multi-model publishing service in early 2003. Today Euclid delivers nearly 40 journals to libraries and individuals under subscription, hosting, or open access delivery plans. Project Euclid's technology infrastructure is based on a modular digital library architecture and protocol developed at Cornell in the early 1990s. The model developed by the library from this early digital library instantiation is now known as DPubS (Digital Publishing System). DPubS was designed specifically to organize, navigate, access, and deliver both open access and subscription controlled scholarly publications. In spring 2004 Cornell University Library in partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania State University Press were awarded a $670,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to generalize and enhance the DPubS system and release the resulting improved version of the software under an open source license.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/08/2005 08:34:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
