4th Sell MeetingMay 14 2004

Paola Gargiulo

CIBER Report

Consortial organizationsCIBER- Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati e Editoria in Rete

(26universities)Members are: CASPUR universities (6) + 19 Central-Southern Italian universitiesVoluntary 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 institutionsMembers 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 wayCultural resistanceLack of coordination in journal subscriptions in large universitiesNeed for more centralization; Procurement procedure and the Italian lawVAT 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 ParmaCDSWare – 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 2004Wiley (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 ItalyAn Italian company SEBINA made its own “federated search” engine + linking technology- Sebina Open LibraryA 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 AccessInstitutional ArchivesOpen Access journals

Web Sites

CILEA –CDL Digital Libraryhttp://cdl.cilea.it

CIBERhttp://ciber.caspur.it

SBBLhttp://sbbl.cilea.it/

CIPEhttp://www.unicipe.it

INFERhttp://www.infer.it