IRIS Institutional Research Repository of Sapienza University of Rome

Overview

IRIS (Institutional Research Information System) is the institutional research repository and publication catalogue of Sapienza University of Rome, one of the oldest and largest universities in Europe. The system serves as the central infrastructure for collecting, managing, and disseminating the scientific output of Sapienza's faculty, researchers, and doctoral students. It is accessible at iris.uniroma1.it.

History and Founding

IRIS was developed in collaboration with CINECA (the Italian inter-university computing consortium) as part of the national U-GOV project involving multiple Italian universities. The system became the mandatory platform for all Sapienza researchers to register their scholarly outputs, replacing earlier dispersed mechanisms. Sapienza University itself was founded in 1303, making it one of the world's oldest universities.

Collections and Holdings

The IRIS repository aggregates a multidisciplinary collection of research outputs from Sapienza's approximately 4,500 faculty members and researchers across 11 faculties and more than 65 departments. Holdings include journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, monographs, doctoral dissertations, datasets, and technical reports. Records number in the tens of thousands. The repository supports open access publishing via both the gold and green routes, and integrates with the ORCID researcher identification system.

Notable Features

IRIS feeds data to the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR/ANVUR) for national research quality assessments (VQR) and national academic qualification procedures (ASN). The platform also supports salary increments and internal bonus assessments at the university level. An OAI-PMH endpoint enables harvesting by aggregators including OpenAIRE and Europeana-related services.

Access and Usage

IRIS is freely accessible online for browsing and searching research outputs. Depositing is restricted to Sapienza-affiliated researchers. Some content is restricted to Sapienza staff and students due to publisher embargo policies; where permitted, full-text PDFs are openly available under Creative Commons or other licenses.