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Courses and Additional ServicesCourses and Additional Services
Learn about our additional preservation option using Amazon S3, specialized trainings at our own IR Manager Certification Course, and extra support for your journals via DC Publishing Services.
Automated Backup with bepress Archive
While DC offers an extensive and secure infrastructure to safeguard your content, we know that many institutions are interested in the added guarantee of having a copy of their own archives. We partner with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide cost-effective, dependable, and automatic storage of your files on a highly reliable cloud server. You have full access to all of your bepress Archive files at all times.
- After a file is sent to S3, Amazon performs a data integrity check to ensure that the file residing on S3 matches the file on the DC platform exactly.
- Amazon S3 redundantly stores your files on multiple servers across multiple facilities. The service is designed to sustain multiple server failures by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy.
- Amazon S3 performs checksums on data uploaded to the service and repairs any corruption using redundant data.
- Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of files.
To learn more, contact your consultant or visit Getting Started with bepress Archive.
IR Manager Certification Course
We provide administrators of Digital Commons repositories with supplemental training opportunities.
The IR Manager Certification Course is an intensive two-day workshop for institutional repository administrators, where you’ll develop crucial skills and expertise to help you succeed at one of the most demanding jobs in the field of librarianship and scholarly communication.
IR Manager Certification Course attendees will:
- Develop a concrete set of IR best practices, goals, and benchmarks
- Gain in-depth knowledge of the Digital Commons software and its breadth of supported content
- Learn strategies to find, manage, and promote new content at your institution
- Train with a skilled consultant and use Digital Commons’ reporting tools to demonstrate growth and impact to your stakeholders
- Earn an IR Manager Certificate
DC Community, stay tuned to the Google Group for the next course announcement or contact Consulting Services for more information.
Digital Commons Publishing Services
Digital Commons journals that participate in DC Publishing Services (DCPS) receive additional tools and support to grow in such areas as indexing, readership, and internationalization.
The table below provides an overview of the features and services in each DCPS tier as well as the Standard tier that applies to DC repository journals. All tiers above Professional are available as an add-on for any journal in a DC repository.
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Standard journals in DC repositories receive: Hosting/Design, Visibility, Dashboards, DC Editorial Systems, CS Support, and optional DOI registration support.
DCPS Professional tier (available for single and multi-journal licenses only): All of the above and ISSN, Archiving, Feeds, and Plagiarism Checking.
DCPS Professional + Typesetting: Everything in Professional, plus Typesetting.
DCPS Professional + Editorial Manager: Everything in Professional, plus Editorial Manager instead of DC Editorial Systems.
DCPS Premier: Everything in Professional, plus Typesetting, Editorial Manager, Reviewer Finder, Strategic Advising, Impact Reports, and PubMed Feed.