PEER - Invitations to tender for research now available

["Janice Kuta" <kuta@stm-assoc.org>]

The following should be of interest.

News release
22 December 2008

PEER - Invitations to tender for research now available

Invitations to Tender for the Behavioural Research and Usage 
Research aspects of the PEER project are now available from the 
STM website at 
http://www.stm-assoc.org/peer-invitation-to-tender.

1. Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-a-vis Journals
    and Repositories.

The objectives will be to:

* Track trends and explain patterns of author and user behaviour
   in the context of so called Green Open Access.

* Understand the role repositories play for authors in the 
context of journal publishing.

* Understand the role repositories play for users in context of
   accessing journal articles.

2. Usage Research: Journals and Repositories

The objectives will be to:

* Determine usage trends at publishers and repositories;

* Understand source and nature of use of deposited manuscripts in
   repositories;

* Track trends, develop indicators and explain patterns of usage
   for repositories and journals.

Tenders for both areas of research must be received by the Max 
Planck Digital Library by 17.00 on Tuesday 17 February 2009

About PEER:

PEER is a pioneering collaboration between publishers, 
repositories and the research community, which aims to 
investigate the effects of the large-scale deposit (so called 
Green Open Access) on user access, author visibility, and journal 
viability. PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.

For enquiries regarding the PEER Observatory, please contact 
Chris Armbruster, Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck Society. 
(armbruster@mpdl.mpg.de)

For enquiries regarding the bidding process, please contact Julia 
Wallace (wallace@stm-assoc.org)

PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical 
and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, 
Gottingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, 
INRIA, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld

Janice E. Kuta
Director of Marketing & Membership
International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
E-mail: kuta@stm-assoc.org
Tel: 212-533-0832
Fax: 212-420-8407
www.stm-assoc.org