L'iniziativa PLEIADI: una piattaforma digitale per la comunità italiana Open Access

The PLEIADI initiative (acronym for “Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali”, Portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives and institutional repositories http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/) originates from the collaboration between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA, within the framework of the AEPIC project. PLEIADI provides a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian repositories. The main features of the initiative are: discovery and locate, personalized services, visibility and impact, awareness and dissemination. PLEIADI aims at allowing the academic and research community to discover, to access Italian OA scholarly production in a structured way, at increasing its visibility and its impact on the Italian and the International academic and research world. Furthermore PLEIADI provides the end-user with a personalized environment offering several services of high interest to the researcher and to his/her work, and it aims at keeping the end-users abreast with what is going in the OA realm and contributing to his/her awareness and support of OA. The personalized services include users profile creation, alerting services, search and citations savings, personalized news services (news, forum, RSS). The main features of the initiative are: discovery and locate, personalized services, visibility and impact, awareness and dissemination. PLEIADI aims at allowing the academic and research community to discover, to access Italian OA scholarly production in a structured way, at increasing its visibility and its impact on the Italian and the International academic and research world. Furthermore PLEIADI provides the end-user with a personalized environment offering several services of high interest to the researcher and to his/her work, and it aims at keeping the end-users abreast with what is going in the OA realm and contributing to his/her awareness and support of OA. The personalized services include users profile creation, alerting services, search and citations savings, personalized news services (news, forum, RSS)