„„Services Services forfor OA Publishing“OA Publishing“Berlin 4 Berlin 4 –– Workshop Workshop

Wolfram HorstmannWolfram Horstmann2006/03/312006/03/31

I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n

„Digital Peer Publishing“ initiated by the Ministry of Research of the German state North-Rhine Westphalia

proximate goal: Support Start-ups & Pick-ups of eJournals

Initiative

ultimate goal: Fostering innovative forms of web-based, scholarly communication

Organisation

eJournal Service Structure

Authors

Referees

Editorial Board

Readers

Editor/Chief

Editorial office

admin.

eJournal

Institution

…

local

techn. Infrastructure

Support§Licences

Distribution

10 journals from various disciplinesmost starting within past 15 monthsaround 200 (500) reviewed publicationsstill moderate submission rates, high rejection ratescompound/complex materialsabout 50 editorial users - with editorial nets several 100

several ‘true’ readers each month: 50 > x < 500 per article

without free internet-floatation (!!!)even if assuming only 10% of visitors as readerscompare to journal usage statistics of libraries (often below 1 per year)

first citations of start-ups observed

Data

Hosting and Archivingpowerful and secure Hardware and Software – Fedora / Zope-Plone

"persistent Identifiers" for primary Publications - URNopen archival format - XMLpreparation for long-term archiving

Production systemindividual layoutsimple editing of editorial contents - WYSIWYGautom. Article conversion with stylesheets - RTF/LaTeX -> XML <- HTML/PDFmessaging - Listen/RSS-Feeds

Licence-Managementautomated licence management: integration in metadata and articles„some rights reserved“ – CC to be includedDigital Peer Publishing Licence – modules for scholarly communication – DPPL

…

DiPP-Services

…Distribution

indexing in search engines / databases - z.B. ISSN, EZB, DOAJ, OAISTERautomat. notification of metadata and articles - via OAI-PMH / eMail-Alertdisciplinary forms for metadata- DDC, PAC etc.tools and scripts for exact and ‚clean‘ statistics– AWstats, Custom (Python)

Workflow systems Forms, worklists and views for authors, editors and reviewersscalability - Blind, Double-Blind etc.

Training / knowledge transferworkshops and intra-network exchange - Workshops, Training, Lists, WIKI

DiPP-Services

platformDiPP-Services

LDAP

OAIWSDL / API-A

Serviceprovider

HTTP

OAI WSDL /

API-A, API-M

WSDL / API-DiPPWebclient

Peer ReviewSystem

DiPP-Services

EditorialToolbox

Repository

(2) review

Service-provider

Referees

Author

Chief editor

Editorialoffice

Reader

(4) OAI(1) submit

(3) release document

(7) edit

(9) Reads/comments

(8) distribution

(5) Webservice

(6) Web-service

Service-provider

(8) distribution

Publication-System /Editorial Toolbox

Peer Review-System DiPP-Services• Document

conversion & transformation• URN Management• Ingest preparation• Metadata Management• Object Relationship

Repository

• Workflow enabled• Customized eJournal instances• User Management• Content Management

• Workflow enabled• Document submission form• Reviewing management

MetadataDatabase

• Management API(API-M)• Access API(API-A)• Field search• OAI

Explore transitions from eJournals to repositories

a - pre-prints > open review > post prints

Perspectives

c - overlay journals

b - material repositories as journal extensions (> eScience)

exploit complex eJournal structure for ‘simple’ repositories

www.dipp.nrw.de

I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n

preparation &submission

conformancecheck

check-infor SE

reviewpending

disconformitynotification

conformityrevision

submissionnotification

reviewerselection

reviewrequest

reviewrejection

reviewacceptance

documentdelivery

review

acceptancerecommend.

rejectionrecommend.

directlyrejected

directlyaccepted

directreject. not.

revisionpending

revisionrecommend.

revisionnotification

revision

reviewdecision

reviewrejected

revieweraccepted

revisedsubmission

revisiondelivery

rev. rejectionrecommend.

rev. acceptancerecommend.

revisedrejected

revisedaccepted

revision review pend.

revisionconformance check

revisionreject. not.

revisionreview

revision review delivery

acceptance review delivery

directreject. not

revisionreject. not.

revision accept. delivery

review req.rejection not.

review req.acceptance not.

author communication

progress status

reviewercommunication

layoutpreparation

release request

scheduling

release decision

release accepted

release rejected

layoutrevision

release revision not.

abstractarticlematerialreviewrevision reviewarticle revisionmaterial revisionarticle layoutmaterial layoutlayout notesfinal articlefinal material

eMailGAPZopeAcrobat-ReaderMonist-Consoleword processor

required systems attachementsresponsibilities

lines

authoreditorsection editorreviewer

positivenegativeneutralpendingoptionalx-or

issuecompilation