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, <http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/index.php?sel_lang=english>http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/index.php?sel_lang=english) originated from the collaboration between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA. PLEIADI is a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian institutional repositories, harvested via the OAI-PMH protocol. Metadata are then filtered through different services that add value by crosswalking, normalizing and indexing. PLEIADI portal offers a joint search interface and a series of user-centred services (news, forum, RSS, alerting, resource linking, profiling, etc.) that supplement the platform offer. The list of IRs is continuously growing.
Because of the importance to gather a critical mass of open access contents, CASPUR e CILEA (via AEPIC, <http://www.aepic.it/index.php?lang=en>http://www.aepic.it/index.php?lang=en) support the promotion of interoperable archives through several initiatives addressed to researchers, technicians, librarians in universities and research centres. Both also offer the design and implementation of archives, journals, portals and integrated systems for any need of information aggregation. PLEIADI will be presented by Paola Gargiulo at "ELPUB 2005, the 9th ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing" (<http://www.elpub.net>http://www.elpub.net), that will take place on 8th-10th June 2005 in the Arenberg Castle in Leuven-Heverlee (Belgium). Best regards, Susanna Mornati Susanna Mornati Project Leader AePIC, http://www.aepic.it CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT, http://www.cilea.it Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 SEGRATE (MILANO) - ITALY voice +39 02 2699 5322, mobile +39 348 7090 226 mailto:[email protected]
