10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 AN OPEN ARCHIVE FOR “ZOOPROFILATTICI SPERIMENTALI” INSTITUTES PUBLICATIONS L. Fruttini, E. Piras, I. Massirio, M. Bucciarelli, S. Guarise, L. Pitaro, E. Aliberti, A. D'Orazi, L. Lombardi, P. Gradito Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche, Perugia - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emilia Romagna, Brescia – Italy Istituto Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise, Teramo - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte,Valle d'Aosta e Liguria,Torino - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Palermo - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e Basilicata, Foggia - Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e Toscana, Roma - Italy

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The present work is intended to show the state of the art of the feasibility study about the implementation PROJECT of an II.ZZ.SS. Open Access Repository

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The project : Implementation of a database concerning: - the II.ZZ.SS. ordinary scientific publications - the II.ZZ.SS. "grey literature", usually hardly disseminated The aim : to foster the research activities carried out in the II.ZZ.SS. in Italy

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 Indeed, the core of our work is to highligth the research activities carried out in the single Institutes and particular attention is devoted to the Reference Centres

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 At present, the creation of Information Repositories, organized as Open Archives, represents a new editorial strategy of great interest

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The specific target envisaged: II.ZZ.SS. researchers veterinarians practitioners Public Health Service employees Consumers students

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 This resource promises to be of an outstanding interest for the operators who work both in the human and animal health as well as in the food safety fields

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 As a first step, the technical scientific skills of the personnel, who make up the Zooprofilattici Sperimentali Institutes’ advanced services, have been examined

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 Open access librariansveterinarians Ict experts THE TEAM WORK

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 First step: To investigate into the users’ information needs and habits The survey : a questionnaire delivered to 756 workers operating in the Istituti Zooprofilattici Sperimentali thoughout Italy ____________________________ ____________________________ ______________________ RILEVAMENTO DELLE ESIGENZE INFORMATIVE DEGLI OPERATORI DEGLI ISTITUTI ZOOPROFILATTICI SPERIMENTALI (II.ZZ.SS.) ____________________________ ____________________________ ______________________

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The target is the technical scientific staff performing its activities at the IIZZSS The data collected have been analysed in order to highlight two basic trends: - II.ZZ.SS. scenario’s congruity with the Open Access initiatives; - Expressed information requirements to establish a skilled scientific information handling in the Istituti Zooprofilattici Sperimentali THE USERS’ SURVEY

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 Researchers have answered to the questionnaire showing a deep interest on the topic treated and pointing out the feasibility of an Open Archive concerning the II.ZZ.SS. research activity

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September % would like to have an information and a good education offer to enhance the access to bibliographic resources through the Internet 17% would like to have a higher user-friendliness and usability of the databases available and of the library services 14% of the interviewed ask for skilled advisory service about scientific document elaboration and publication RESULTS

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 Figure 1: Information requirements expressed 1. Better knowledge of the services offered by the libraries. 2. Biomedical databases online use. 3. Database and administrative, law resources. 4. Access to bibliographic resources through internet. 5. Scientific documents’ ways of elaboration and publication ways. 6. Information to scientific publication authors (IF, copyright, privacy, security). 7. Personalised services and editorial products (bibliographic bulletins, reviews, law newsletters. 8. Not available.

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 Figure 2: Information priority expressed 1. Better knowledge of the services offered by the libraries. 2. Biomedical databases online use. 3. Database and administrative, law resources. 4. Access to bibliographic resources through internet. 5. Scientific documents’ ways of elaboration and publication. 6. Information to scientific publication authors (IF, copyright, privacy, security). 7. Personalised services and editorial products (bibliographic bulletins, reviews, law newsletters. 8. Not available.

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The results have been discussed by the panel of experts working at the IIZZSS DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The analysis of the survey on the users’ information needs provided vital issues to be considered for the project under study Interviewed people ask for: - taylor-made services and current awareness services by means of specific editorial products such as: bibliographic bulletins, techno – scientific newsletters, press reviews, information products edited and cured by the bibliographic services i.e. libraries - An efficient, time-saving information retrieval CONCLUSIONS

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 The librarian acting as a reflective practitioner is changing his role from information provider to “information manager”

10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania,11th-16th of September 2006 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!