Science, institutional archives and open access: an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

From the abstract: ...A survey was conducted in March 2010 to mainly explore the managing system in use for archiving the research finding adopted by the Italian Scientific Institutes for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care (IRCCS) of the oncology area within the Italian National Health Service. They were asked to respond to a questionnaire intended to collect data about institutional archives, metadata formats and posting of full-text documents. The enquire concerned also the perceived role of the institutional repository DSpace ISS, built up by the Istituto Superiore di Sanita (Italian National Institute of Health, ISS), based on a XML scheme for encoding metadata....The survey respondents were 6 out of 9. The results reveal the use of different practices and standard among the institutions concerning: the type of documentation collected, the software adopted, the use and format of metadata and the conditions of accessibility to the IRs....The Italian research institutions in the field of oncology are moving the first steps towards the philosophy of OA. The main effort should be the implementation of common procedures also in order to connect scientific publications to researchers curricula. In this framework, an important effort is represented by the project of ISS aimed to set a common interface able to allow migration of data from partner institutions to the OA compliant repository DSpace ISS.

Link:

http://www.jeccr.com/content/29/1/168

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Tags:

oa.medicine oa.new oa.green oa.surveys oa.case.repositories oa.italy oa.repositories

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:17

Date published:

12/20/2010, 15:06