[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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