[Forwarding from the PEER project.  --Peter Suber.]


3 November 2009

PEER ­ Final 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, systematic
depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (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 over 240 journals will become available for
archiving.

While the earlier Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit
procedures for publishers and repository managers (D2.1,
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/ ) set out a preliminary deposit workflow, this final
report reflects a collaborative effort between publishers and the library and repository
stakeholder communities to achieve a feasible workflow for depo¬si¬ting stage-2 outputs
and for the provision of log files from repositories to enable the research envisaged in the
PEER project.

This report is the result of an ongoing cooperation between stakeholder groups
comprising publishers and the library/repository community to establish best practice in
deposit proce¬dures that are least disruptive of existing publication workflows, while
minimizing additional effort in repository ingest activities.

An innovative workflow has been devised to describe and standardise the deposit from
publishers to repositories that demon¬strates, in a core group of interoperable European
repositories, the capability of accepting material deposited from third party publishers
and authors beyond the project duration.

For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer@stm-assoc.org

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

STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge University Press;
EDP Sciences; 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 (National Library of The
Netherlands)