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>-----Original Message-----
>From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Janice Kuta
>Sent: 09 December 2008 21:41
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>Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] PEER announces upcoming calls for
>research tenders
>
>News release
>
>10 December 2008
>
>PEER - PUBLISHING AND THE ECOLOGY OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH
>
>Pre-announcement of upcoming calls for tender PEER is a
>pioneering collaboration between publishers, repositories and
>the research community, by which at least 16,000 peer reviewed
>manuscripts destined to become journal articles in ISI ranked
>journals will be made available for archiving every year for
>three years. The aim is to investigate the effects of the
>large-scale deposit (so called Green Open
>Access) on user access, author visibility, and journal viability.
>
>At the heart of the project an Observatory will be built to
>gather evidence about the impact of systematic archiving of
>stage-two research outputs. Three strands of research will be
>tendered:
>
>1. Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-ā-vis
>Journals and Repositories (Call mid-
>December 2008, Deadline mid-February 2009). The objectives will be to:
>* Track trends and explain patterns of author and user
>behaviour in the context of so
>called Green Open Access.
>* Understand the role repositories play for authors in
>the context of journal publishing.
>* Understand the role repositories play for users in
>context of accessing journal articles.
>
>2. Usage Research: Journals and Repositories (Call
>mid-December 2008, Deadline mid-
>February 2009). The objectives will be to:
>* Determine usage trends at publishers and repositories;
>* Understand source and nature of use of deposited
>manuscripts in repositories;
>* Track trends, develop indicators and explain patterns
>of usage for repositories and
>journals.
>
>3. Economic research: The deposit of journal manuscripts
>in repositories (Summer
>2009). The objectives will be to:
>* Compare the efficiency and cost effectiveness of
>methods of deposit, e.g. publisher-
>assisted vs. author self-archiving;
>* Compare the efficiency and cost effectiveness of
>access, e.g. repositories vs. publisher
>systems.
>
>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 will collaborate on PEER, supported by the SURF
>Foundation and University of Bielefeld, which will 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. The PEER project has nominated a Research Oversight
>Group:
>* Justus Haucap, Professor of Competition Policy,
>University of Erlangen. 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.
>
>The set-up of the PEER project offers a number of distinctions
>that bidders could utilise in the design of the study:
>* PEER is based on the selection of 200 to 300 ISI ranked
>journals, from which
>manuscripts are selected for deposit. Publishers hold a
>control group of equivalent journals from which no manuscripts
>will be deposited.
>* From journals selected for deposit, only the
>manuscripts with European based (lead)
>authors are selected for archiving, leaving all other
>articles/manuscripts as an alternate group.
>* Half of the manuscripts will be deposited directly by
>the publisher, but the other half
>will require action by the author before archiving.
>* Authors will be invited to deposit in repositories
>participating in the PEER project.
>
>The PEER press release from 14 October 2008 is available at:
>http://www.stm-assoc.org/home/stm-partners-in-the-just-launched
>-pioneering-collaboration-
>b.html
>
>For enquiries regarding the PEER Observatory, please contact
>Chris Armbruster, Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck
>Society. Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>PEER Partners:
>International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical
>Publishers (STM), the European
>Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library,
>the Max Planck Society, INRIA,
>SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld
>
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