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A request for information was emailed to CAUL Dataset Coordinators and the DALIANZ email lists in October 2005. The following responses were received.

Regards,

Martin

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Here at Curtin Library we are starting to keep a general eye on this sort of activity, perhaps looking at a similar initiative.

Thanks and regards

Julie Woodland

CurtinUniversity

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Our LITS (Library Information Technical Services) team recently implemented the Open Journal Systems product for some academics at our institution. This has been used by them to host their International Journal for Educational Integrity which you can view here. For extensive information regarding OJS, I suggest that you view the companion website.

Hopefully this helps,

Martyn A George

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Hi Martin,

Gary has asked me to respond to your query.

As a member of the ARROW project, we have chosen the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software as our journal publishing software.

We have also recently published a journal as part of this program - see

The idea is for the library to provide the technical infrastructure and support, as well as general online publishing and copyright help and advice. We also coordinate an online journals group to help share experiences and best practice across the areas involved in publishing a journal.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Helen Wolff

ARROW Project Officer

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Something of interest to you may be a paper here at EDUCAUSE by Cornell on their newly released DpubS system. It is essentially a bunch of tools which make up a suite for local and institution e-presses and e-publishing. PennState have also started using it to publish their insitituional e-journals. If you are looking at this field and haven't picked a toolset yet it may be of interest to you ...

Plenty of information available from Cornell directly at

Cheers,

Andrew Bennett

Executive Manager, Library Technology Service

The University of Queensland Library

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Are you thinking of a kind of E-press with e-commerce facilities for external pay per view / subscriptions, or simply a part of the institutional repository with branded ejournals?

Digital Commons@ allows you to do both although I believe the e-press side is still rather underdeveloped. BostonCollege has some examples of their branded ejournals within the Institutional Repository - - but you probably know all of that anyway.

We had a Digital Commons demo here recently and are looking into it, as are Auckland Uni and AUT apparently.

Regards,

Mark

Mark Sutherland

Associate Director, Information Access Services

BondUniversity Library

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Monash epress has done similar things I believe, and may even to be willing to do it for your journals. They were talking about that at one point. You can contact them here:

David Groenewegen

Information Resources Management Librarian

Information Services

University of Ballarat

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Do you plan to provide access to the published journals to subscribers outside the University and therefore act like an e-press?

If so, Monash provides such a service for monographs and journals :

Tom Girke

CSIRO

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Martin - you might want to look at

which are both published with Open Journal Systems software ( which we've also installed here at the National Library - the NLA is working with a scholarly association in a trial to publish their journal (with a view to perhaps using it for some other things as well). So far as I know we're not going to be charging the group, and I don't know what financial models operate in the two universities above(UTS and Swinburne)

Sandra Henderson

Manager, Research,

Coordination Support Branch

National Library of Australia

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Both UTS and Swinburne are using EJS.

cheers,

Diane Costello

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