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 Düsseldorf 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: [log in to unmask]
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: [log in to unmask]
PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.
PEER Partners: The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
(STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen 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 Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG);
HAL, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); Göttingen
State and University Library (UGOE); BiPrints, Universität Bielefeld (UNIBI); Kaunas
University of Technology, Lithuania; University Library of Debrecen, Hungary
Long-term preservation service: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Nationale bibliotheek van
Nederland)
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