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

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@iastate.edu =20
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