1. 8th Sell Meeting May 30-31st 2008 Paola Gargiulo State of the art

2. Consortial organizations CIBER- Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati e Editoria in Rete (26 universities) Members are: CASPUR universities (9) + 17 Central-Southern Italian universities CILEA – Supercomputing Applications Consortia (11 members + various research institutions Members are: 11 universities from the Northwest of Italy. CILEA acts on behalf of these universities and the same time as a service provider to other Italian universities or research centres which have not joined either CIBER or CIPE CIPE – Coordinamento Italiano Periodici Elettronici (11 universities) It’s a consortium of universities mainly from Central and Northern East part of Italy. SBBL – Sistema biblioteche biomediche Lombardia a regional based consortia of medical schools and hospitals in Lombardy BIBLIOSAN – a national based consortia of medical research centres and hospital under the aegis of the ministry of Health

3. News from Italy 2007-2008 National negotiations : Elsevier, Springer and Portico under the aegis of CARE – Coordinamento Acquisto Risorse Elettroniche –promoted by CRUI – Council of the Rectors of Italian Universities (Next step: Wiley Blackwell negotiations) CIPE became officially a consortium in 2007 CIBER became officially a body of CASPUR in February 2008 Authorization & Authentication Infrastructure (AAI) – Pilot Project IDEM (Italian Federation- partners: GARR,universities, CNR research centres, + service providers: NILDE, Elsevier- based on Shibboleth CASPUR and CILEA continue their activities in providing services to universities in support of Open Access (hosting of DSpace and E-prints installations, management of some installations, consulting activities), also running the Italian digital platform to OA repositories -PLEIADI CILEA developed a new product to integrate Research Information System and Institutional Archives (Surplus)

4. CIBER/CASPUR: 2007- 2008 No new contracts: mainly renewal of the existing 16 contracts Close collaboration with the other two consortia (CILEA and CIPE) and active role in CARE A consortial installation of SFX managed by CASPUR for medium –sized universities (presently under trial for 12 universities) New website: more functionalities, more information on contracts for end-users and librarians Activities in promoting information on electronic publishing, digital libraries, digital preservation, Open Access – Newsletter (based on WordPress) More attention to Web 2.0: Blog; CIBER is on Facebook! Next Ciber seminar will be on these issues Next step will be more training for librarians using blended learning

7. Web Sites CILEA –CDL Digital Library http://cdl.cilea.it CIBER http://ciber.caspur.it SBBL http://sbbl.cilea.it/ BBLIOSAN http://www.bibliosan.it CIPE http://www.unicipe.it INFER http://www.infer.it

9. Web Sites CILEA –CDL Digital Library http://cdl.cilea.it CIBER http://ciber.caspur.it SBBL http://sbbl.cilea.it/ BBLIOSAN http://www.bibliosan.it CIPE http://www.unicipe.it INFER http://www.infer.it