Open Access all’INGV: Earth-prints e Annals of Geophysics

Abstract

Earth-prints was born in 2005 as the institutional and disciplinary open archive of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). Its aim is to maximise research impact, to promote communication between scientists and the public, to provide wider dissemination of contents in a specialised community and to make research results in geosciences more openly known. The efforts of INGV librarians and researchers, DSpace customised features, CILEA's technical support and INGV's institutional commitment contributed to make Earth-prints a rich and high-value tool for research assessment and the first Italian repository in the Ranking Web of World Repositories. In 2010 INGV's open access policy concentrated in the international journal Annals of Geophysics. The journal has moved to online only on the Open Journal Systems platform, also with CILEA's technical support. During these latest ten months the journal witnessed an increase in submissions, site visits and downloads of published articles.