About PEER
The aim of PEER is to build a substantial body of evidence, by developing an “observatory” to monitor the effects of systematic archiving over time. Participating publishers will collectively contribute 300 journals to the project and supporting research studies will address issues such as:
- How large-scale archiving will affect journal viability
- Whether it increases access
- How it will affect the broader ecology of European research
- Which factors influence the readiness to deposit in institutional and disciplinary repositories and what the associated costs might be
- Models to illustrate how traditional publishing systems can coexist with self-archiving.
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society and INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) will collaborate on PEER, supported by the SURF Foundation and the University of Bielefeld, which will contribute the expertise of the EU-funded DRIVER project.
Also participating in PEER are the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National library of the Netherlands) and the following repositories and STM publishers:
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 - Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS − Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
STM publishers participating in PEER:
BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell