http://eprints.rclis.org/4403/ A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project 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. Gargiulo, Paola Mornati, Susanna Contino, Ugo Tajoli, Zeno IK H. I. HP LJ HR L. IF LS A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project 2005-08-02 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 Open Culture : accessing and sharing Knowledge, Milano (Italy), 27/29 June 2005. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished) application/pdf