%A Paola Gargiulo
%A Susanna Mornati
%A Ugo Contino
%A Zeno Tajoli
%T A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project
%X 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.
%D 2005
%K Portal, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Z39-50, Open Source
%L eprints34403