[Forwarding from Barbara Bayer-Schur. --Peter Suber.]
For distribution - **Apologies** for cross-posting** Barbara Bayer-Schur SUB Goettingen, Germany *PEER **- Publishing and the Ecology of European **Research* News release - 30 September 2010 *PEER - Year 2 Annual Report Now Available * * * *www.peerproject.eu/reports* Reporting on the past 12 months of activity in this ground breaking collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community investigating the effects of Green Open Access, the PEER Annual Report highlights the complexity of the infrastructure required for PEER and thesubstantial progress achieved towards the project's objectives. To simulate the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for journal publication, 12 participating publishers are providing content and associated metadata from 241 participating journals. Half of the manuscripts are being submitted directly to PEER, while for the other half, authors are invited by publishers to self-deposit into the project. All submitted content is being received by the PEER Depot, a central repository created specifically for the project by INRIA, which undertakes filtering for EU research content, metadata matching and transformations, and embargo management prior to distribution to participating repositories. By the end of year 2 (August 2010), almost 25,000 unique publisher provided manuscripts had been processed by the PEER Depot, resulting in 10,000 EU manuscripts after processing (some still under embargo), with embargo expired manuscripts distributed to participating repositories. The three areas of usage, economic and behavioural research commissioned byPEER are well underway, with the Baseline Behavioural Report already publicly available from the PEER website. With a robust infrastructure in place, the next phase of the project will see increasing volumes of content becoming available in support of the ongoing research. About PEER: PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC eContent*plus* programme<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm>, will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers and will last from September 2008 to May 2012 Further information on PEER, visit the website: http://www.peerproject.eu/ For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail Dr Julia Wallace, Project Manager: p...@stm-assoc.org. PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library, 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 PublishingGroup; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell * * PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique(INRIA); Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE); Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; University Library of Debrecen, Hungary; SSOAR (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland Long-term preservation service: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands) _____________________________ Barbara Bayer-Schur M.A. PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen Tel. +49 551 39 5242 bayer-sc...@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.peerproject.eu/
