creators_name: Gargiulo, Paola
creators_name: Mornati, Susanna
creators_name: Contino, Ugo
creators_name: Tajoli, Zeno
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-08-02
lastmod: 2008-11-19 08:53:04
metadata_visibility: show
title: A user-centred portal for search and retrieval of open-access Italian scholarly literature: the PLEIADI project
ispublished: unpub
subjects: IK
subjects: H.
subjects: I.
subjects: HP
subjects: LJ
subjects: HR
subjects: L.
subjects: IF
subjects: LS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Portal, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Z39-50, Open Source
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.
date: 2005
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
referencetext: 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
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Italian open archives http://www.openarchives.it/

citation: 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)
document_url: http://eprints.rclis.org/4403/1/Pleiadi_AICA2005_rev.pdf