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Marialaura Vignocchi

Dr. Marialaura Vignocchi is Head of the Alma-DL of the University of Bologna and Coordinator of the National Commission on Academic and Research Libraries of AIB (Italian Library Association). Her main interests are in Digital Libraries, scholarly communication and Open Access. She is responsible for the MICHAEL project inventory at the University of Bologna. She is also a member of the national Working Group on Open Access within the Library Commission of CRUI (Conference of the Rectors of the Italian Universities). She collaborates with the national Study Group on Digital Libraries of AIB (Italian Library Association) and the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale. She has participated in national and international conferences and published articles on Open Access, IRs, scholarly communication, IP and copyright issues, DL services.
Alma-DL (Alma Mater Studiorum Digital Library) http://almadl.cib.unibo.it/, is a complex project with the aim to develop an organizational and a technological infrastructure to collect, organize, archive, integrate and provide access to the digital contents that the University acquires or produces and makes available primarily to institutional users and, when possible, worldwide. The DL project has covered the following areas: institutional repositories and e-publishing, digitization, archiving and web publication of valuable collections owned by the University libraries, metadata and standards, digital collections development and preservation, resources integration and search, information literacy and support services for users, statistical monitoring, users authentication systems and fault tolerance systems. The DL is providing access to digital content such as theses and dissertation, course-packages, research publications and pre-prints, digitized rare and ancient volumes, most of them open access and through open source software which implements OAI-PMH interoperability standard.