10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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 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 l. fruttini@pg. izs. it

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

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

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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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. ) ____________________________

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th of September 2006 THE USERS’ SURVEY 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th of September 2006 RESULTS 27% 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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th 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.

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

10 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH LIBRARIES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 th-16 th of September 2006 CONCLUSIONS 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

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

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