From: Irene Perciali <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:17:38 -0700

Announcing: DC Publishing Services

Dear colleagues,

In response to the growing importance of library-led publishing,
bepress is pleased to announce a new service for journals on the
Digital Commons platform. DC Publishing Services connects journals to
dozens of library and publisher tools in a single step.

DC Publishing Services includes:

* Archiving with CLOCKSS and Portico
* Delivery to library discovery tools (Worldcat, Primo, Summon, EBSCO Discovery)
* Delivery to journal indexes and databases
* DOIs with CrossRef
* Registration with DOAJ, Ulrich’s, and ISSN
* A relationship with vendors for copyediting, print, XML conversion,
and other options

Participating journals benefit from professional publishing
infrastructure and services previously reserved for large publishers:
bepress handles all the memberships, legal agreements, and fees;
carries out the technical set-up, follow-up, and troubleshooting; and
orients the library and editors to this new landscape.

“Developing a holistic journal publishing service is a next logical
step in a library's support of scholarly communications,” says Doug
Way, Head of Scholarly Communications at Grand Valley State
University, a pilot school for the DC Publishing Services program.
“The capacity to archive, facilitate indexing and supply DOIs –
functions available from DC Publishing Services – allows us to attract
and support journals that have come to expect these capabilities from
commercial counterparts.”

DC Publishing Services ran in pilot stage during the first half of
2012, and we’d like to thank the participants who volunteered journals
to help us test the program: Butler University, Grand Valley State
University, Kennesaw State University, Pacific University, Purdue
University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Nevada
Las Vegas, Western Kentucky University, and the Global Summitry
Project at the University of Toronto.

For pricing and more information about adding a journal to DC
Publishing Services, please contact [log in to unmask]
To learn more about library-led journal publishing, make sure to sign
up for our “Spotlight on Publishing” webinar series this fall:
http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/pubseries.

Irene Perciali, Ph.D.
Director of Strategic Initiatives
bepress
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digitalcommons.bepress.com