DSpace ISS

Welcome to the digital repository OAI-compliant of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the Italian National Institute of Health the leading research body in the field of public health and related areas.

General Features

We are using version 1.8.2 of DSpace software.
DSpace ISS currently holds about 30,000 items. The repository includes material from the ISS publications -- mostly available in full-text -- and citations of scientific papers published on external sources (journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, etc) by both the ISS research staff and researchers from other institutions.

The repository as a core of a ISS project

In 2005 ISS launched a Project aimed at aggregating the biomedical resources, mainly scientific publications, produced by Italian research institutions operating in the Italian National Health Service. DSpace ISS aims at providing instant access to the full text of scholarly publications within the framework of the Open Access environment.

ISS Institutional Policy for Open Access to Scientific Publications

In 2006 the ISS signed the ''Berlin Declaration on Open Access to knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities'' and in 2007 the ''Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results''.
On January 2008 the President of Istituto Superiore di Sanità signed an internal policy mandating all the ISS research staff to make the post prints of their peer-reviewed articles available on the DSpace ISS repository (View).

Partnership for enhancing ISS repository services

Together with its own publications, the repository holds a selection of bibliographic data provided from partner institutions, most of which belong to the Bibliosan network, a collaborative initiative conceived to spread health information and services and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Health.
If you are interested in knowing more about DSpace ISS and would join the initiative of aggregating scientific publications in the field of public health and related areas, contact: IT of the ISS. Contact DSpace Team for DSpace technical aspects. A standard format for archiving metadata into the repository is available for the institutions who desire to become partners of DSpace ISS (View).