[Oa-italia] Comunicato Stampa: Zurich Open Repository and Archive goes live using Open Repository service (fwd)
Paola Gargiulo
Paola.Gargiulo a caspur.it
Lun 27 Nov 2006 22:42:30 CET
E' stato rilasciato l'archivio aperto dell'universita' di Zurigo. Questa
universita' ha optato per Open Repository Service, il servizio messo a
disposizione a pagamento da Biomed Central.
http://www.zora.unizh.ch/zora/
A detta di Ingeborg Zimmermann, Head of Research Library Irchel and Project
Manager, la scelta e' caduta su questa soluzione in quanto permetteva
all'universita di dotarsi un archivio in tempi brevi e di rinviare ad una
soluzione fatta in casa successivamente: "Open Repository allowed for a
jump-start of our institutional repository, while keeping the mid-term
option of moving all content to Zurich and running the repository in-house"
Inoltre l'universita' produce parecche pubblicazioni presenti in PUBMED e
l'utilizzo di PubMed ID ha permesso un trasferimento automatico dei
metadati, permettendo lro di raggiungere l'obiettivo di 1000 pubblicazioni.
"Being a university with a large output in biomedical research, the
submission of content using PubMed ID and thus enabling automatic metadata
transfer was a great help in reaching our first goal of 1000 publications."
Open Repository Service utilizza DSpace alle sue funzionalitą standard ha
aggiunto anche un modulo per sottoporreil materiale che utilizza il PubMed
ID ed un link esterno a Entrez Database.
Ingeborg Zimmerman ha parlato di questa esperienza nel convegno su Open
Scholarship che si e' tenuto a Glasgow nell' ottobre scorso.
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/programme.html
Anche in Italia ormai da qualche anno il CILEA ed, in scala molto piu'
piccola il CASPUR, offrono un servizio simile a quello di BioMedCentral.
Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili per il CILEA sul sito di
http://www.aepic.it
Vi allego il messaggio relativo a ZORA comparso sulla lista
jisc-repositories.
Cordialmente
Paola
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:42:28 -0000
From: Grace Baynes <Grace a BIOMEDCENTRAL.COM>
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES a JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Press release: Zurich Open Repository and Archive goes live using
Open Repository service
Press release: 27 November 2006
Zurich Open Repository and Archive goes live using Open Repository service
University of Zurich has launched ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive)
using BioMed Central's Open Repository service. ZORA is freely available
online at www.zora.unizh.ch. The University of Zurich is the largest
university in Switzerland. Over 4000 staff and 24,000 students work across
160 institutes, departments and clinics.
Open access repositories are fast becoming a must-have for institutions,
allowing staff and students to share research findings effectively. The
global directory of academic open access repositories, OpenDOAR, launched
last month with over 800 entries.
Institutional open access repositories also allow researchers to meet the
conditions of funding bodies with an open access mandate. Six research
funders now mandate open access to work they have funded, and many more
mandates are under consideration. The University of Zurich also has an open
access near-mandate, expecting that researchers deposit a copy of all their
published and refereed articles in ZORA, subject to copyright restrictions.
The university is the sixth institution to launch a repository using BioMed
Central's Open Repository service. Open Repository provides institutions
with a hassle-free hosted solution to get repositories up and running
quickly. The service adds unique, value-added features to the open-source
DSpace technology platform. Zurich, like all other customers, maintains
complete administrative control over the repository whilst BioMed Central
provides ongoing hosting services, personalization, backups and technical
support.
Ingeborg Zimmermann, Head of Research Library Irchel and Project Manager,
explains why Zurich chose BioMed Central's Open Repository service,
"Open Repository allowed for a jump-start of our institutional repository,
while keeping the mid-term option of moving all content to Zurich and
running the repository in-house. Being a university with a large output in
biomedical research, the submission of content using PubMed ID and thus
enabling automatic metadata transfer was a great help in reaching our first
goal of 1000 publications."
Ingeborg Zimmerman recently shared Zurich's experience of outsourcing its
repository development to Open Repository at the Open Scholarship 2006
meeting in Glasgow.
Value-added features of the Open Repository in addition to the standard
DSpace functionality can include a submission form using PubMed ID and
external linking to Entrez databases. BioMed Central can also offer Open
Repositories in different (Roman alphabet) languages, and customisable
submission forms. The service is now W3 web accessibility compliant A.
Open Repository offers a Pilot Repository set up scheme, allowing customers
to have working demo sites personalised to their needs for a 3-month, no
obligation, free trial.
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Press contacts:
Grace Baynes for BioMed Central: press a biomedcentral.com or +44 (0) 20 7631
9988
Christian Fuhrer, University of Zurich, Open Access Coordinator,
oai a hbz.unizh.ch
Sales Contact:
For more information about the Open Repository service, or to discuss
setting up a Pilot Repository, please contact
Marianne Josserand: info a openrepository.com or +44 (0) 20 7631 9990
About Open Repository (www.openrepository.com/)
Open Repository is a service provided by BioMed Central for institutions and
research organisations. Open Repository offers professional help to
institutions to quickly and easily build, launch, maintain, and populate
their own repositories. The service has been designed to be flexible and
cost-effective. BioMed Central's economy of scale makes it possible for
institutions that could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure
or technical capacity in-house, to set up repositories.
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