[Dspace-general] Authoring tool development & publisher collaborations

[Margret Branschofsky]

Working with the publishers sounds like a great idea.  We could each 
approach the publishers most important for our repositories, i.e. MIT could 
go after IEEE.  And once we have some publishers who are willing to work 
with us we could list them in a registry on dspace.org.
Of course, not all publishers will think this is a great idea :-), but we 
can start with the cooperative ones and see how far we get.

Margret Branschofsky

DSpace User Support Manager
Digital Library Research Group
Bldg. 14S-M24
(617)253-1293
margretb at mit.edu
http://dspace.mit.edu



At 05:25 PM 5/5/2004 -0400, Michael Leach wrote:
>Folks,
>
>     The Harvard Science Libraries will be launching a pilot institutional 
> repository using DSpace this summer.  We are actively looking at 
> solutions that will gather articles and other digital objects at the 
> creation stage in our communities.
>     One avenue we are examining is the development of author tools that 
> will capture the relevant digital object (e.g. research article) as a 
> given faculty member, grad student, post doc, etc. is preparing to submit 
> the article to any given publisher.  Picture one such tool--a web-based 
> form that is customized by the author and contains those 
> publishers/journals he/she regularly submits to.  On this form is a radio 
> button (default--checked) that asks if the author wants the preprint 
> deposited into the institutional repository as it is sent off to 
> review.  The form could also have options for sending the article off to 
> any given preprint server as well (e.g. ArXiv).  The author makes the 
> relevant choices on the form, clicks once, and the article is sent off to 
> the various parties.
>      Are any of you developing such a tool or tools?  Similarly, have any 
> of you approached potential publishers to help in the development of such 
> tools?  Obviously, I don't wish to reinvent the wheel, and this email 
> archive did not show any previous posting along these lines (unless I 
> missed it).  Of course, if anyone is interested in collaborating, please 
> let me know. I have already initiated talks with publishers in the 
> physics and biomedical fields on this topic.
>     Thanks.
>
>Michael
>
>Michael R. Leach
>Harvard University, Kummel Library of Geological Sciences & Physics 
>Research Library
>617-495-2878 or -2029 (voice); leach at eps.harvard.edu or 
>mrleach at fas.harvard.edu
>
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