A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project

Gargiulo, Paola and Mornati, Susanna and Contino, Ugo and Tajoli, Zeno (2005) A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project. In Proceedings Open Culture : accessing and sharing Knowledge, Milano (Italy).

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Abstract

[Italian abstract]
Il progetto PLEIADI (Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana
su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali) nasce dalla collaborazione di due fra i più grossi consorzi universitari italiani, CILEA e CASPUR, all'interno del contesto del progetto AEPIC (http://www.aepic.it). Lo scopo di PLEIADI è di promuovere la consapevolezza del movimento Open Access all'interno dello scenario italiano e di fornire un accesso centralizzato alla letteratura scientifica depositata in archivi istituzionali italiani (ovvero nei Data Providers secondo la terminologia OAI - Open Access Initiative). Il portale mette a disposizione dell'utente un ambiente personalizzato e configurabile con servizi di ricerca "user centered" (ricerche salvate o eseguite, article alerts, area "my articles"). Sono inoltre disponibili servizi di News, RSS e Forum, al fine di promuovere le finalità dell'open access e la pratica dell'auto archiviazione degli articoli scientifici all'interno della comunità degli utenti del portale. PLEIADI, raggiungibile alla URL http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/, è stato ufficialmente lanciato nel Novembre 2004, durante la conferenza dell'Open Access all'università di Messina, occasione nella quale ha avuto inizio il movimento Open Access italiano.

[English abstract]
The PLEIADI Project (acronym for “Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana
su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali”, a portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open
archives and institutional repositories) was born within the framework of a collaboration
between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA, as part of a project
called AEPIC (http://www.aepic.it). PLEIADI’s goal is to promote national awareness in the
Open Access scenario and provide centralized access for scholarly literature archived in
Italian institutional repositories (or “data providers” in the OAI - Open Archives Initiative
architecture). PLEIADI also aims at providing end users (mainly the academic and research
community) with a personalized environment, user profiling, an area to save searches and
articles, e-mail alerts. The portal enhances users’ awareness on Open Access issues through
several information services (news, RSS, forum), and promotes self-archiving of scholarly
articles in institutional repositories. The service, available at the URL
http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/, was launched in November 2004, during a national event
held in Messina, which marked the “official starting point” for the Open Access movement in
the Italian academic community.

Keywords:	Portal, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Z39-50, Open Source
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IK. Design, development, implementation and maintenance H. Information sources, supports, channels. I. Information treatment for information services H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources. L. Information technology and library technology. > LJ. Software. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals. L. Information technology and library technology. I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques. L. Information technology and library technology. > LS. Search engines.
ID Code:	4403
Deposited By:	Contino, Ugo
Deposited On:	02 August 2005
All fields:	Show all fields

Pleiadi – Open Archives Platform – Project Plan (in Italian); http://www.aepic.it/documenti/PLEIADI_project_plan_ita_1_4.pdf

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), http://www.soros.org/openaccess

OAI- PMH, http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol

Open Archives Initiative (OAI), http://www.openarchives.org/

PLEIADI, http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/index.php?sel_lang=english

CILEA: Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l’Elaborazione Automatica (http://www.cilea.it)

CASPUR: Consorzio interuniversitario per le Applicazioni di Supercalcolo per Università e Ricerca (http://www.caspur.it/en/)

AEPIC (Academic E-Publishing infrastructures at CILEA), http://www.aepic.it

XOOPS, http://www.xoops.org/

ANSI-NISO Standard; ref. http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-50-2003.pdf

SMARTY, http://smarty.php.net/

PHP, http://www.php.net/

MySQL, http://www.mysql.com/

CSS standard description on http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Apache, http://www.apache.org/

ePrints UK Project, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/

METALIS, http://metalis.cilea.it/, a service provider for Library and Information Science OA literature, also developed by CILEA in the AEPIC’s framework.

YAZ, http://zoom.z3950.org/

Celestial, http://celestial.eprints.org

OAI Dublin Core: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd

DCMI (2004), Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

Cheshire II Project, http://cheshire.berkeley.edu/

DOM, http://it2.php.net/manual/en/ref.domxml.php

Gli atenei italiani per l’open access; Workshop – University of Messina; November 4th-5th 2005; http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=1

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Italian open archives http://www.openarchives.it/

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