The Digital Production Centre (DPC) offers scientists and knowledge organisations support to create, make available and archive electronic publications and databases. Scientists and organisations - whether or not affiliated with the Universiteit van Amsterdam - considering electronic publication projects are invited to contact the Digital Production Centre.

Digital scholarly publications and research databases have an important added value to research and teaching: they offer immediate and world-wide access to publications and research materials, search possibilities that give deep access to content, linking to reference and source materials.

Scientists want to use these new possibilities to share the results of their scientific work with colleagues internationally. In this way, authors will be in a position to take on a more autonomous role in the area of scholarly communication independent from large commercial publishing houses.

In order to support these developments, the Digital Production Centre was established at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The DPC works closely together with authors, offers technical support to create electronic publications and supports an infrastructure to make this material available to others. The Centre also offers consultancy and can assist authors in the formulation of projects and the writing of grant proposals. The Centre endeavours to support the development of alternative publication models that will benefit research and education.

The DPC continues to build on a number of innovative content projects that have been completed in the past few years by the University Library of Amsterdam through the EDUBA programme. Among others, a technical infrastructure has been realised and a number of production processes for digital publications were developed.

The DPC is part of the University Library of Amsterdam. The Centre works closely with other organisations including the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan and the Amsterdam University Press.