Regional Research Portal UnityFVG: an OpenScience portal

Abstract

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (FVG) "Regional Scientific System" includes three Public Research Institutions, three Universities, four International Institutions, four Technological Parks in FVG region in North-East Italy.

The three Universities decided to provide a single point of access to their institutional outputs under a new Regional Research Portal called: “UnityFVG - Ricerca Friuli Venezia Giulia”. The Portal will be a web gateway for searching and spreading the research data created by the SISSA, University of Trieste and University of Udine. The portal is also an open access repository that allows access without restrictions to the results of the activities financed by public funds. The UnityFVG Research Portal is based on DSpace-CRIS solution and use the CERIF-XML over OAI-PMH format for harvesting the main entities (People, Organizations, Publications) from the Institutional Repositories (IRIS based) of the member Institutions. Technical support was provided for the first pilot installation by Cineca, the Consortium of Italian Universities where DSpace-CRIS was adopted after the merge with Cilea. After the first year of test and pilot installation, the Regional Research Portal went definitively in production and registered online in the Open Access Week 2017 as http://research.unityfvg.it/. With the technical support of 4Science is now harvesting the data on weekly basis.