This project is based on an effort to expand the capacities of an information and communication technology (ICT)-based system so that institutions of higher education and research can manage and disseminate the intellectual efforts of scholars and researchers. The open source feature of the technology is meant to support exchange of ideas in a more cost-effective manner than could be provided by traditional scholarly publication, with its use of the printed medium.

As part of the collaboration with the University Libraries and Press at Pennsylvania State University, and supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, librarians and information technology specialists have enhanced and extended a publishing system developed for Project Euclid, a not-for-profit, library based publishing initiative in mathematics and statistics. The system, called DPubS, now supports the publication of journals, monographs, and conference proceedings, and it can be configured to accept other evolving forms of scholarly communications. Both open access and subscription-based access models are supported. The system has web-based administrative functionality, and it can interoperate with a Fedora repository. During 2007, editorial tools in support of peer-review activities will be added to DPubS and available in future releases.

The journals Indonesia, published by Cornell's Southeast Asia Program, and Medieval Philosophy and Theology, formerly published by Cambridge University Press, as well as the Pennsylvania Historical Association's Pennsylvania History are among the first titles to make the transition to electronic publishing with the new DPubS software.

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Institutions and organisations interested in using DPubS may contact David Ruddy, the project's manager (see below).