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Abstract

The primary goal of this month's report, The Open Publishing Guide: Creating a Self-Publishing Website Using Open Source Content Management Tools (PICRM-2009-03), by Patricia Albanese, Matthew H. Bernius, Sean Conklin, Alvin Crespo, and Rachael Gootnick, was to report on the creation of the Open Publishing Guide (OPG), and the process taken to develop the final website. The report also discusses the steps necessary to produce a website of the scope and scale of the OPG, provides an overview of the production methodology, discusses the process by which content was acquired for the site, and explores the web platform used to deliver the content.