University of Trieste

EUT

EDIZIONI UNIVERSITARIE DI TRIESTE

TRIESTE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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UFFICIO SERVIZI PER LA

DIVULGAZIONE SCIENTIFICA

Science communication and research dissemination are not simply about making difficult things simpler, and are something more than the exchange of scientific knowledge from those who know to those who do not. By implying public engagement, they do effect our ideas on citizenship, knowledge, and culture: knowledge has to be communicated – to other researchers, to specific targets, to a general audience, and to its potential users - in order to take effect.

Ufficio Servizi per la divulgazione scientifica aims at promoting a series of actions and practices to communicate knowledge and culture in order to foster public engagement. The office supports researchers of the University of Trieste in organizing festivals, laboratories, public events, public lectures, and public debates. Moreover, it helps the academic staff in communicating and disseminating their scientific work online and on social media.

OpenstarTs

The University of Trieste has an Open Access Policy as from 7 June 2013.

OpenstarTs is the institutional repository of the University of Trieste. It has been set up in compliance with the guidelines of the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI). It collects, manages and stores the digital objects produced by the University and aims at their quick and effective dissemination.

OpenstarTs is based on self-archiving: the author submits both the metadata and the data, i.e. describes the document by filling in a guided web form and uploads the relative file into the repository. When the system administrator validates the submission the item is published.

In order to simplify the procedures and to avoid duplications OpenstarTs is interfaced with the University authentication system (LDAP) and with other institutional data bases, such as the student registry. The repository is presently operational for the submission of doctoral theses in compliance with the relevant CRUI guidelines. The doctoral theses are harvested by the National Libraries of Florence and Rome for preservation purposes.

About the University

Founded in 1924, the University of Trieste is a medium-sized university with a student population of approximately 16,000. It offers a wide range of degree programmes at bachelor, master and doctoral level, as well as short vocational masters, advanced masters and specialisation programmes, most of which are in the medical area. Some degree programmes are taught in English.

The university currently has 10 departments: Economic, Business, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences; Engineering and Architecture; Humanities; Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies; Mathematics and Geosciences; Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences; Life Sciences; Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences; Physics; Political and Social Sciences.

The university participates in many research projects at national and international level. It is also involved in various student and staff exchange programmes with universities in the EU and collaborates with several universities from Eastern Europe and other non-EU countries.