3.1 How should a new product be entered?
To enter a product in IRIS-OpenPub you must connect to IRIS-OpenPub with your institutional credentials, select "Personal view", click on “New item”, choose the product type and open the related input form.
Attention: the choice of a specific type of product is a delicate moment that requires great attention, as the choice made determines the presence or absence of metadata in each descriptive step.
Each step is supported by specific instructions and other reference works
The author must fill in the main bibliographic data along with some metadata that will be used in the research evaluation process (e.g. non-FEM authors, MIUR subject sector, type of reference, relevance, etc.). Inserting will be done once the author attached the document to be referred by the head of his Research unit.
The Submission guide and additional reference works are available on FEMxME, section OpenPub
The submitter can check the review process of each product on his Desktop products, section My submissions
3.2 What are Scientific-discipline sectors?
Scientific discipline sectors are subjects grouping that work as a classification for the competition classes and the research activities, as defined by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR); they are used as benchmarks for the national evaluation of research and the publications classifications.
Documents are available on the MIUR website; the latest update is attached to DM 855/2015. FEM is only adopting a selection that the submitter will find associated to the specific metadata in the submission form of IRIS-OpenPub
3.3 What are the parameters used to assign the international relevance to a research product?
A research product is given an international relevance, when having at least one of the following verifiable indicators:
- the product is the result of an explicit collaboration with researchers and research groups belonging to institutions of other countries (e.g. within international projects)
- the product has or may spread in the scientific community in other countries for linguistic (publication or translation in another language) or editorial reasons (presence in collections of international writings or in journals with international diffusion) or because of the interest aroused (e.g. because of the citations detected through international scientific platforms)
- the product is indexed in international databases and / or repositories
- the publication has been submitted to an international scientific committee or foreign scholars belong to the direction and / or the editorial board
3.4 Funding from European projects: data to be recorded
IRIS-OpenPub is compliant with the OpenAIRE guidelines 3.0 and fulfills the requirements of OA Horizon 2020 with regard of the storage in the institutional archives and the availability of open access publications financed by the EU. The metadata related to the publications stored in the archive will be regularly gathered by the OpenAIRE harvester and displayed on the OpenAIRE portal. The data relevant to the identification of European projects must be entered in the IRIS-OpenPub submission form; in particular the EU grant / project type must be selected, and the project ID and its acronym must be entered (see Guide).
3.5 Other funding sources
Funding sources different from the European projects can also be recorded on the IRIS-OpenPub submission form (Other grant / project field) along with the Acronym and the project identifier (seeGuide)
It is also required to indicate whether the product has been funded on the “Accordo di Programma” or on the “Accordo di Programma integrato” (see Guide)
3.6 What is OpenAIRE?
OpenAIRE = Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
OpenAire (2009-2011) is the European project aimed at creating a digital infrastructure and support mechanisms for the identification, storage, monitoring and open access to the full text of journal articles financed within the pilot project Open Access of the 7. Framework Program (FP7) and by ERC - European Research Council. The project was refinanced in 2012 with the new project OpenAIRplus (2012-2014) and later with OpenAIRE 2020 (2015-2018).
Learn more at: http://www.cineca.it/it/news/openaire2020 and https://www.openaire.eu/
3.7 My product in worklow has been published: what should I do?
The successful publication of a product in workflow “in validation (Library)” should be notified to the IRIS-OpenPub staff openpub.library@fmach.it), along with DOI or URL or a reprint.
The Library will provide the filling of the bibliographic description and its storing.
If available, the author will supply the full text in open access version, according to the copyright editorial policies. The author is responsible for verifying the full text version to be linked to the product.
Attention: the copy sent by the publisher to the author with the note "author's personal copy" is not explicitly allowed in institutional archives.
3.8 What should I do if the journal rejects an article already included in IRIS-OpenPub?
Should the publisher not accept the article already submitted in IRIS-OpenPub and waiting in the "In validation (Library)" status and the paper gets sent to another publisher, no further submission is required. Once the article gets accepted, the IRIS-OpenPub staff should be informed so that they will update the data.
3.9 My product has already been archived. Can it be modified?
If the product has already been archived, any changes, corrections or substitutions of attached files, must be reported and requested to the IRIS-OpenPub staff (openpub.library@fmach.it)
The reopening of a product reenters it in the validation workflow and, as a rule, it has to be avoided.
The product has to be reopened only in case of content changes that require a new approval of the Head of Research Unit and Department