PEER Website now live

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

News release

23 February 2009

PEER -- website now live at http://www.peerproject.eu

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, journal 
viability and the broader European research environment.

The project will run until 2011, during which time over 50,000 
European stage two (accepted) manuscripts from up to 300 journals 
will become available for archiving.

The PEER website will serve the three key stakeholder groups of 
publishers, repository/ library community and researchers (both 
as authors and readers), and will also provide information 
accessible to the general public.

Content will include news updates, as well as reports on various 
aspects of the project as PEER progresses.

A presentation providing an introduction to PEER is available on 
the website:

http://www.peerproject.eu/presentations/

For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer@stm-assoc.org

PEER is supported by the EC eContentplus programme.

PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical 
and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, 
G=F6ttingen 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