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For Release: June 21, 2005 CONTACT: David Ruddy, DPubS technical manager, (607) 255-6803; [log in to unmask] Ithaca, NY--Cornell University Library is pleased to announce two new electronic resources now published online using the Digital Publishing System (DPubS) software, an open source publication delivery and management system Cornell developed collaboratively with Pennsylvania State University Libraries. ** Indonesia, http://e-publishing.library.cornell.edu/Indonesia, a semi-annual journal published by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, offers more than 700 articles and reviews devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society from 1966 to the present. ** Pennsylvania History, a quarterly journal that publishes the best of current scholarship on the history of the Commonwealth and the region. Published since 1934, Pennsylvania History is the official journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA), http://www.pa-history.org. The on-line archive of this journal (featuring all issues published prior to 2000) and the DPubS system delivering it, will soon be managed and operated by the PSU Libraries. The first volume is now electronically available from Cornell University Library at http://dpubs.org/PennHistory. These new resources result from an initiative to generalize the DPubS software, supported by a $670,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cornell University Library originally created the DPubS software for Project Euclid http://projecteuclid.org, a Mellon Foundation-supported initiative that utilizes mutually beneficial strategies to support both academic libraries and independent publishers of mathematics and statistics journals. Working together, the libraries at Cornell and Pennsylvania State are now enhancing and extending DPubS to create an open source, general purpose platform to facilitate the publishing of on-line scholarly literature in diverse disciplines. DPubS will support peer review, have extensive administrative functionality and will provide interoperability with other open source repository systems such as Fedora and DSpace. This flexible online publishing tool will aid institutions of higher education and research in managing and disseminating the intellectual efforts of scholars and researchers. Several partner institutions will begin testing an alpha version of DPubS in fall 2005, with beta testing scheduled for early 2006 and final release in mid-2006. For more information and to sign up for an email update list, please visit http://dpubs.org. Institutions and organizations interested in DPubS should contact David Ruddy, the project's technical manager at Cornell University, (607) 255-6803 or [log in to unmask]