DPubS (Digital Publishing System)

DPubS (Digital Publishing System) is an open-source software system designed to enable the organization, presentation, and delivery of scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse. DPubS was conceived by Cornell University Library to aid colleges and universities in managing and disseminating the intellectual discoveries and writing of scholars and researchers.

For download:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpubs

DPubS has the following minimum requirements:

• Hardware
  • Tested DPubS on Solaris 9 (sparc) Solaris 10 (sparc) and Linux (Red Hat FC4 for x86).
  • DPubS should work fine anywhere you can run Apache/mod_perl.

• Perl 5.8+
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• Recommend perl 5.8+ because of the unicode support that was adding with 5.8.

• Apache/mod_perl
  • Apache (1.3.x) and mod_perl (1.x) or Apache (2.x) and mod_perl (2.x).

• Java
  • If Lucene search engine is used, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or greater is required.

• Storage Space
  • The disk space needed for DPubS will depend primarily on the amount and type of content that you are going to publish.
  • The DPubS source code itself requires less than 10 MB of space.

• RAM
  • A minimum of 256MB of memory is recommended for DPubS.

Administrator Guide

http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/AdminFunctions

Presentation DPubS:

This presentation will provide information about DPubS, the Digital Publishing System project that Penn State is working on with Cornell University.

http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/Home

Download the presentation (2.7 MB PPT file)


Eric G. Ferrin discussing DPubS, Digital Publishing System.