Transcript 4th Sell Meeting May 14 2004 CIBER Report Paola Gargiulo Consortial organizations CIBER- Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati e Editoria in Rete (26universities) Members are: CASPUR universities.

4th Sell Meeting
May 14 2004
CIBER Report
Paola Gargiulo
Consortial organizations
CIBER- Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati e Editoria in Rete
(26universities)
Members are: CASPUR universities (6) + 19 Central-Southern Italian universities
Voluntary basis; no legal status,it is administratevely and technically supported by CASPUR. CIBER is
about to change its status into a moreformal organization. Negotiations are handled by the
coordinator and the secretariat and by ad hoc negotiating committees
CILEA – Supercomputing Applications Consortia (11 members + various
research institutions
Members are: 11 universities from the Northwest of Italy. CILEA acts on behalf of these
universities and the same time as a service provider to other Italian universities or research
centres which have not joined either CIBER or CIPE
CIPE – Coordinamento Italiano Periodici Elettronici (12 universities)
It’s a group of universities mainly from Central and Northern East part of Italy. No legal status, the
group is well organized, each university is formally committed to the group. The university of Padua
acts as an official representative, signs contracts ecc. The contract negotiations are handled by a
board (university rapresentatives + consultant)
SBBL – a regional based consortia of medical schools and hospitals in Lombardy
News from Italy
Some progress towards national negotiations : the CRUI (Council of Rectors of
Italian Universities) initiative
E-only based contracts are slowly making their way
Cultural resistance
Lack of coordination in journal subscriptions in large universities
Need for more centralization;
Procurement procedure and the Italian law
VAT issue
Increasing the number of institutional repositories have been set up by single
universities and by CILEA and by CASPUR
sw used
Eprints (8 universities)
Dspace – University of Parma
CDSWare – University of Roma “La Sapienza”, University of Messina
CASPUR and CILEA national platform for providing services to institutional
OA
Usage statistics and usability studies (CASPUR Initiative)
New contracts in 2004
Wiley (2003-2007) interconsortial –CIBER and CILEA
Elsevier Science (2004-2006) renewed by CILEA
JSTOR for 6 CIBER members
Springer to be finalized
Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, APS/AIS under negotiations for
CIBER
ISI Web of Science and JCR (2004-2006) for some CIBER members
2005 CIBER Possible Negotiations
Annual reviews
BiomedCentral
Cell Press journals
EIO – Editoria Italiana Online (about a 500 journals published in Italian
available electronically through Casalini Digital Platform)
Lippincott
Kluwer e-books
Project Muse
Various bibliographic databases with or without ft (ABI/INFORM; INSPEC;IEL
(?) Mathsci-net, ZentralBlatt)
Issues
Better integrated access and navigation
METALIB and SFX are slowly making their way in Italy
An Italian company SEBINA made its own “federated search” engine + linking
technology- Sebina Open Library
A metasearch engine has been devoloped by the University of Rome “La
Sapienza” Metabids
Linking technology used is Serials Solution Article-linker
Development and support of Open Access
Institutional Archives
Open Access journals
Web Sites
CILEA –CDL Digital Library
http://cdl.cilea.it
CIPE
http://www.unicipe.it
CIBER
http://ciber.caspur.it
SBBL
http://sbbl.cilea.it/
INFER
http://www.infer.it