<mods:mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-0.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Paola</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Gargiulo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Susanna</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Mornati</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Ugo</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Contino</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Zeno</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Tajoli</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods: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.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">IK. Design, development, implementation and maintenance</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">H. Information sources, supports, channels.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">I. Information treatment for information services</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">HP. e-resources.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">LJ. Software.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">HR. Portals.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">L. Information technology and library technology.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">LS. Search engines.</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2005</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference Paper</mods:genre></mods:mods>