The digital library at Sapienza : Università di Roma and the effort for Open Access

Fantoni, Antonio, Tarantino, Ezio and Terranova, Giovanna The digital library at Sapienza : Università di Roma and the effort for Open Access., 2006 . In Institutional archives for research : experiences and projects in Open Access, Rome (Italy), 30 November–1 December 2006. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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The project to make La Sapienza aware of on line scientific information starter in 1998 and soon became a most indispensable utility for most teachers and scientists, mainly in the STM area, but also for humanities and law scholars. BIDS (http://bids.citicord.uniroma1.it/) started its activities by spreading metadata databases to members and students of all faculties, irrelevant of their disciplinary location, in the name of the universality of knowledge and scientific progress. Starting 1999 full text journals followed. To date end result is the availability of 95 data bases and about 15.000 on line journals. BIDS was proficient in developing CIBE (http://www.uniciber.it/), a new consortium in central and south Italy, now connecting the digital libraries of 27 universities under the technological frame of CASPUR. It soon became apparent that in the era of information technology the mere acquisition of commercial resources was not sufficient to be part to the process of deep innovation rendered possible for scientific communication. Our project was extended to the in house production of products not present in the market or too expensive as compared to the given value. It was therefore promoted the production of a database named "Infoleges" (http://www.infoleges.it/) containing all regional, European and Italian laws, as soon as officially issued and linked to each other to ensure the ready reference to citations of previous and successive rules and regulations. In addition a metasearch engine was created, named "MetaBids", (http://metabids.citicord.uniroma1.it/v2005/?) capable of rescuing bibliographic information from all on line archives, either commercial resources bought by la Sapienza or Open Access repositories, and able to provide the direct link to available full-text articles. The cost of both products proved much lower than the acquisition of similar commercial products and much better adapted to the users needs. Both resources were rendered freely available to no profit institutions, both for higher education and research. CIBER became deeply involved with the Open Access movement in Italy, officially launched in Italy by the Messina Declaration in November 2004. BIDS had already started in January 2004 an Open Access portal named "PADIS" (http://padis.uniroma1.it/) were PhD dissertations, now 273) were to be deposited by La Sapienza doctorate schools. PADIS has now added two additional Open Access activities, namely (i) "La Sapienza Pubblica", the institutional repository for grey literature and for pre-print and post-print on line published articles and (ii) "OJS", the Open Journals of La Sapienza (http://padis2.uniroma1.it:81/ojs/), starting a new enterprise to give a free on line access to the 63 scientific journals, mostly in the domain of humanities and social science, whose printed version is issued at La Sapienza, out of which three are already available.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	Digital libraries, open access, BIDS, Biblioteca Digitale della Sapienza, PADIS, PhD dissertations, institutional repositories, scientific communication
Subjects:	D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories. B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	Users 181 not found.
Date deposited:	08 Dec 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:05
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8575

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