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Case Study: The Challenge Of Building An Italian National Repository Dedicated To The Field Of Medical Research, Susanna Mornati, Irene Buso, Federico Verlicchi, Andrea Bollini

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

4Science is designing a repository for a multi-institutional health system dedicated to medical research. The idea, promoted by a consortium of healthcare and health research institutions, will operate on the initial basis of the library network of these institutions. The idea of the project, which draws its foundations from the DSpace-CRIS platform, is to create a repository in which the libraries are interconnected and can thus share the repository infrastructure.

With this presentation, 4Science intends to expose and share the issues and opportunities that have arisen from working with such a large and complicated infrastructure as the Italian health system …