_Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management Software?_ Part II

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

In addition to the two Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management =
Software/Systems I noted in a previous posting, namely _epress_ [ =
http://www.epress.ac.uk/ ] and _Open Journal Systems_=20
[ http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/  ], I was reminded of a third, notably  DPubS =
(Digital Publishing System) developed by specialists at the Cornell =
University Library with support from  the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [ =
http://dpubs.org/ ] =20

An overview article by Terry Ehling, Director of Electronic Publishing at =
Cornell University Library,
appeared in the December 2004  _ARL Bimonthly Report_ (237):=20

"The Development of an Open Source Publishing System at Cornell and Penn =
State Universities"
[ http://www.arl.org/newsltr/237/opensource.html  ]

With additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and=20
"In collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University, Cornell will =
enhance and extend the DPubS software, which was developed to deliver =
Project Euclid, also a Mellon Foundation-supported scholarly communications=
 initiative. Project Euclid supports cost efficient distribution of serial =
literature in mathematics and statistics, and now DPubS will be enhanced =
and released as a general-purpose publishing platform for scholarly =
literature in diverse fields. It will support peer review, have extensive =
administrative functionality, and will provide interoperability with open =
source repository systems such as Fedora* and DSpace*.=20
[ http://dpubs.org/ ]

Thanks Charles et al. for reminding me about DPubS!

BTW: Project Euclid, which I reviewed in _The Charleston Advisor_ last =
July, uses=20
a version of the DPubS software

"Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals"

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ProjectEuclid.pdf ]

Regards,=20

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and=20
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library=20
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu =20