News release
15 April 2009
PEER – Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for
publishers and repository managers
now available at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/
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.
This draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for
publishers and repository managers sets out to establish a workflow for depo¬siting stage-2
outputs in and harvesting logfiles from designated repositories to facilitate the research
required for PEER.
To ensure that sufficient content is made avail¬able as a research sample to validate the
research process, participating publishers have agreed to collectively deposit 50% of the
outputs on behalf of the authors. For the other 50%, publishers will invite the authors to self-
archive their current manuscripts, and any previous manuscripts from participating journals.
In addition to workflow, the report identifies the preferred file formats for full text and
metadata to be deposited by participating publishers as well as the preferred and mandatory
metadata elements.
Issues of relevance to repositories are also addressed, including the proposal to unify the
ingestion services either based on format used or protocols such as OAI-PMH or SWORD, as
well as procedures for the provision of usage data.
An updated version of this draft report will be made available by PEER later this year.
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PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.
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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