VIRTUAL NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL LIBRARY - FULL-TEXT ARTICLES
Our service (http://periodici.caspur.it/) allows users to access to over 5.300 academic and scientific full-text periodicals, and over 8 millions pdf articles (last update: August 2009). Starting from June 2010 clicking at the URL http://m-periodici.caspur.it users can access the new "Emeroteca Virtuale Mobile" service, a specific version designed for mobile devices. Only users already registered to the Emeroteca Virtuale service can access this site. Journals are available dating the nineties; they cover all fields and are issued by different publishers and professional societies, including:
- American Chemical Society link to full-text
- Blackwell Publishing link to full-text
- Cell Press full-text
- Elsevier Science full-text
- Institute of Physics Publishing full-text
- Kluwer Academic Publisher full-text
- Kluwer Law International full-text
- Springer full-text
This service’s main advantage consists in the possibility of doing research (also personalized) in different fields (author, title, keyword or full-text words) within the entire series. In this way users can refer to a title list arranged by publisher, class or alphabetical order, made possible by an homogeneous interface based on web-usability criteria.
Users access to the service and research function through a client web. On the server housing the virtual library there is a newspaper presentation and article indexation software, based on a commercial package called Science Server.
CASPUR provides support and technical and administrative assistance to the CIBER consortium (Inter-university coordination database and web publishing - Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati ed Editoria in Rete), established in February 1999 by the associated Universities.
CIBER’s goal is to cooperate with all the activities relating to bibliographic and documentary electronic resources online access, in order to improve services by rationalizing the resources and applying economy of scale. CIBER hopes for the participation of universities and the scientific world.
Access to the service is restricted to authorized Institutes and Universities, through a procedure based on the IP address of origin. For this purpose, a group of IP addresses associated to the University departments which are members of CIBER and to the public corporations which have an access agreement with various publishers is configured.
At the moment, we are working on a solution based on a username and password, which would allow the user to access to the virtual library from anywhere.
Technical details
Our virtual library service is based on Science Server 5.4 software, and supplied by tree entirely specular Linux servers, indistinguishable by the final user. Each server is based on an Intel @ 2.4 Ghz double processor, equipped with 4 GB RAM. The servers’ CPU hypertrading technology allows them to double each single CPU performance, so that each server’s operative system can actually “see” four virtual CPUs.
UltraATA disk strips (on 2 Gbps fiberchannel interface) form the space disk on which software, metadata and the indexes’ database are installed, for a total of 14 TB (corresponding to 14.000 GB). Of these, 8 TB are dedicated to the online system, and the others are a specular copy of it, necessary to the whole system data backup.
A shared management system of the disks on which the virtual library's data are stored (based on a Polyserv product) allows the three servers to be always online, with no conflicts in the access to the files. |
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