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Date: 29 May 2012

Time: 11.00 - 17.00 CET

Location: Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, Rue Ravenstein 3, B - 1000 Brussels

Registration is free and now open at: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/

The PEER Economics Research Team from ASK Research Center, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy has completed the Economics research commissioned by PEER. The PEER Economics Research Team addressed PEER’s issue to assess the impact of the large-scale deposit of stage-two research output into repositories from an economic perspective. Hence, the costs associated with deposit of stage-two research outputs into repositories were investigated. For this purpose, costs incurred by publishers and repositories participating in the PEER Project were investigated for key actors involved in research registration, certification, dissemination and digital management: authors, the scholarly community, editors, publishers, libraries, readers and funding agencies.

The PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department of Information Science & LISU) has completed the behavioural research commissioned by PEER. The research which consisted of two phases adopted a mixed methods approach consisting of surveys, focus groups and an interdisciplinary workshop and was carried out between April 2009 and August 2011. The Final report provides the results of both phases of research and a synthesis of the findings of the baseline study.

This report gives an overview of the activities carried out and the achievements so far.

The report is available live at www.peerproject.eu/reports/

While the earlier Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers set out a preliminary deposit workflow, this final report reflects a collaborative effort between publishers and the library and repository stakeholder communities to achieve a feasible workflow for depo­si­ting stage-2 outputs and for the provision of log files from repositories to enable the research envisaged in the PEER project.

For further information, please see the press release Invitation to tender for Economic Research (10 09 2009).

PEER announces the appointment of teams from Loughborough University and University College London (UCL) for Behavioural and Usage Research

The teams undertaking the first two areas of research for PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) are announced:

Behavioural Research: Authors and Readers vis-ŕ-vis Journals and Repositories, will be undertaken by the Department of Information Science and LISU at Loughborough University

Usage Research: Journals and Repositories, will be undertaken by the UCL based CIBER group

For further information, please see the press release Appointment of teams from Loughborough University and University College London (UCL) for Behavioural and Usage Research (25 08 2009)